> Most modern conceptions of UBI don’t conform to its literal meaning anymore, Michael Mendelson, a fellow with the poverty policy think tank Maytree, told the

> Most modern conceptions of UBI don’t conform to its literal meaning anymore, Michael Mendelson, a fellow with the poverty policy think tank Maytree, told the Star. > Nowadays, UBI has come to mean any kind of basic income plan, which usually takes the universal form or a “guaranteed” income plan that scales depending on a person’s need. Step 1: redefine the term? Looking at the text of the 2021 bill, which you should probably read instead, it uses the term "livable basic income", not UBI. So at least that's more honest. The text is here, it's really very light, closer to an announcement of an announcement than a plan: https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/44-1/bill/S-233/first-reading https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/44-1/bill/S-233/first-... Is there an updated bill somewhere that has more detail? There were debates this year that you can sorta read here: https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/112db_2023-04-18-e?language=e#67 https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/112d... Click "National Framework for a Guaranteed Livable Basic Income Bill"