Ontario Premier Doug Ford exchanges words with former NDP leader Andrea Horwath during Question Period at Queen's Park in Toronto on July 31, 2018.After battling five years against a class-action certification process, the Ontario government has paid $320,000 to the law firm spearheading a lawsuit against the Ford government over its
“Stop fighting, stop delaying and get down to the business of doing justice and fairness by these people,” Mr. Moreau told The Globe and Mail. For years, she had been trying to launch a videography company focused on preserving stories and images of the elderly. But she had to work four jobs just to meet the financial demands of basic living – rent, food, transportation.
The pilot cheques started arriving in 2018. Ms. Golem kept up some work, but focused on her small-business plan. With the income reduction, the pilot payments totalled about $700 a month, she said, enough to cover rent and nothing more. A survey of 424 participants by the Basic Income Canada Network found that those sorts of improvements were widespread. One-third of respondents reported that the pilot gave them enough money to go to school. One in five said it funded their transportation to work.
. The last cheque went out in March of the following year.