Grand River Transit

[tomh009]

Except that, rather than phasing it out gradually, my solution is not to have free transit, discounted utilities, etc. and etc. ad infinitum, but just to have a guaranteed minimum income. Then everybody can participate in the economy without poorer people having to apply for all sorts of complicated income support programs.

Universal minimum income is (most likely) a great solution. The pilot projects that I have read about have been successful and have had good outcomes. But this is a big thing that would need to be implemented at a provincial or (more likely) federal level, I don't think it's realistic for the cities or the region to do this.