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Basic Income Now

Canada already provides income security for low-income seniors through Old Age Security (OAS) and the Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS), and also supplements low-income families with children through the Canada Child Benefit (CCB).

We now need a livable Basic Income Guarantee (BIG) for low-income working-age Canadians to ensure everyone has an income sufficient to meet their basic needs, including food security and live with dignity, regardless of their work status.

Five years ago, the PEI legislature developed an all-party agreement to support and work with the federal government to develop and implement a basic income guarantee for PEI.

There is significant potential in the PEI’s proposed a 5-7-year demonstration project, which could advance and inform the development of a national Guaranteed Livable income benefit that is cost shared and administered in collaboration with provincial, territorial, and First Nation governments.

Contact the Vancouver Food Justice Coalition to join our Parliamentary petition calling on the government to advance the PEI basic income demonstration project

No More Scraps: Because Food is a Right Not a Privilege

Too many people in Canada are struggling to put food on the table and, with the current economic uncertainty around tariffs, the crisis is deepening. Wages are already too low, rents are unaffordable for many, and grocery prices are rising still further.

Right now, one in four Canadians is food insecure, with Indigenous and Black communities facing much higher levels.

For years, governments haven’t done enough to fix things. Instead of making sure everyone can afford food, people are expected to rely on food banks and charity—temporary measures that were never meant to be a long-term solution and won’t be enough to get us through a sustained economic crisis.

In a country as rich as Canada, no one should have to choose between paying rent or buying groceries. No one should have to skip meals or feed their kids cheap, unhealthy food because it’s all they can afford.

This isn’t just bad luck—it’s a failure of policy. We need a future where every person, no matter where they live or how much they make, can afford to eat.

Put Food Banks Out Of Business

The Put Food Banks Out Of Business campaign is a group of food bank and food policy leaders urging all candidates and political parties to include a guaranteed liveable basic income in their party platform in the upcoming federal election.

Governments have been failing Canadians and food banks have been doing our best to pick up the slack. But we shouldn’t be here. The food security of people in Canada should not rest on the shoulders of private charities and individual donors.

A guaranteed liveable basic income is the single most impactful policy for alleviating food insecurity. People are food insecure because they don’t have enough money. Hunger is a result of poverty.

BC can't afford to leave women workers behind

BC Centre For Family Equity

The COVID-19 pandemic hit lone mother-led families hard and we are seeing the impacts now. The child poverty rate in lone parent-led families in BC has worsened with a whopping 12.6% increase (First Call, 2024). We call for a suite of proactive policies and programs that remove barriers and build bridges to the labour market to ensure lone mothers' economic inclusion, end the cycle of family poverty and strengthen BC's economy now at a time of economic uncertainty.