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Basic Income Pilot Consultations – Key Issues for People on OW and ODSP

January 9, 2017

Are you planning on attending a consultation on the government’s Basic Income Pilot Project? Do you plan to respond to their survey or send in your thoughts by email?

ISAC and the ODSP Action Coalition have created a list of key issues that you can use to help respond to the questions being asked. This is an update of a preliminary document created and circulated in November 2016.

Four community consultation sessions have already taken place, in Hamilton, Toronto, and Sudbury. The next session is scheduled for January 9 (tonight) in Kingston.

  • You can download the Key Issues document here: ODSP Action Coalition And ISAC – Basic Income Pilot Consultations – Key Issues – Jan 5 2017

Also, the ODSP Action Coalition, with the support of the Regent Park Community Food Centre (CFC) and the Schizophrenia Society of Ontario (SSO), has prepared a Community Facilitator’s Guide for those who wish to conduct their own consultation meetings in their communities.

The Facilitator’s Guide is intended to assist people on Ontario Works (OW) and the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) to participate meaningfully in Ontario’s Basic Income Pilot consultations.

  • The Community Facilitator’s Guide is available for download at the Coalition’s website here: http://www.odspaction.ca/resource/coalition-facilitators-guide-basic-income-consultation

The provincial government is consulting about its Basic Income Pilot throughout the month of January. The deadline for providing feedback is January 31.

A list of meeting dates and locations for the sessions being held across the province is here: https://www.ontario.ca/page/basic-income-pilot-consultation#section-3.

Go to this link to register to attend a session: https://www.ontario.ca/form/register-attend-session-basic-income-pilot-consultation.

NOTE that some of the locations for the sessions have been changed. Check the list for more information.

You can also complete an online survey, or you can send in your comments by email. Information about those avenues to have your say is available here: https://www.ontario.ca/page/basic-income-pilot-consultation#section-3.

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This site contains general legal information for people in Ontario, Canada. It is not intended to be used as legal advice for a specific legal problem. ISAC is a not-for-profit, non-partisan organization. ISAC is funded by Legal Aid Ontario (LAO). The funding for this website is also provided by LAO. The views expressed in any of ISAC’s publications (including written, oral, or visual) are the views of the clinic and do not necessarily reflect those of LAO.