Action4Canada - September 15, 2022


Poilievre's New Deputy Leader


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Melissa Lansman joins us from the Secret Bar on Queen Street East in Toronto to talk about the universal basic income (UBI) and what it means for the future of our economy. We also discuss the impact of the Global Pandemic on the Canadian economy and the government's response to it.

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00:00:00.000 well there's some political parties now saying melissa that they want to have this as a steady
00:00:06.360 thing you know the minimum income well you know what i actually do uh somewhat agree with that
00:00:11.880 and there's a conservative position on this the universal income benefit the thing that you're
00:00:16.380 talking about where you're giving people a living wage that's gonna come and it could be that by a
00:00:22.240 different name doesn't sound very conservative to me i actually think conservatives can own this
00:00:26.220 because you know what it does do it does take uh government out of the mix of a bunch of means
00:00:31.820 tested programs uh thrown out of ottawa by a bunch of bureaucrats and gives everybody that that that
00:00:39.240 thing that they need to get back to work and we put you know we we put that onto people uh and we
00:00:45.800 believe in them and we try to get them out of poverty how are future governments going to pay for that
00:00:50.620 well because we don't get the revenues in though i think that any government that wants to bring this
00:00:55.620 forward is a government that's going to need a mandate from the people because i don't think
00:00:59.360 the liberals have the mandate to do that in ottawa right now i don't think that uh any party
00:01:03.800 necessarily has a mandate to spend into the future the way that they've been spending during this
00:01:08.600 pandemic absolutely so what's our economy going to be like what you know what should government be
00:01:13.140 doing to funnel people to the jobs or maybe you know i mean we've seen government federal government
00:01:17.120 right now picking and choosing companies that's not going well no that's not going well it never
00:01:21.840 goes well of course i think the government needs to invest in actual people in in uh in skills in
00:01:27.460 making sure that we're ready for whatever the economy looks like because we saw that you know
00:01:32.340 we closed our doors and this affected adversely sort of the the the lowest wage jobs the precarious
00:01:39.960 labor uh and we got to figure out how to get people out of that trained up into whatever a new
00:01:46.460 economy looks like a digital economy a delivery economy whatever it is are capable of doing that
00:01:52.680 they haven't been capable uh yet but i do believe that this pandemic has forced us to think way faster
00:01:59.200 uh and we were way more nimble and we did the work the government did the work with 25 percent less
00:02:05.680 people working there and they did it faster and better than before and i'll give the liberals full
00:02:10.620 credit on this i think in the beginning days of the pandemic they got a few things wrong but they got a
00:02:15.420 lot of things right so melissa lansman for you hope springs eternal you got it three minutes thanks
00:02:22.080 very much melissa thank you for watching we are going to continue to broadcast from the secret bar
00:02:27.280 here on top of the george restaurant courtyards on queen street east in toronto these days where
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