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