Beyond Incarceration

BICYN’s most recent op-ed in The Hill Times (not mentioned in the podcast - but super relevant to the podcast!) is about the Canada Disability Benefit and why we still need a guaranteed basic income. It was written by BICYN directors Alexandra Zannis and Ellen Spannagel. (https://www.hilltimes.com/story/2023/...) 

Kendal's academic work: https://carleton.ca/socialwork/people...

 https://invisibleinstitutions.com/ 

https://invisibleinstitutions.com/pol... 

https://invisibleinstitutions.com/pol... 

https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2022...

 https://doi.org/10.22215/etd/2021-14559

 https://ojs.uwindsor.ca/index.php/csw...

 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/... 

To learn more about the Basic Income Canada Youth Network Website:

 https://www.basicincomeyouth.ca/ 

Youtube:   

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 Twitter: 

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 For more on the bills discussed in the episode: Bill C-22: Canada Disability Benefit Act 

https://www.parl.ca/legisinfo/en/bill...

 Bill S-233: National Framework for a Guaranteed Livable Basic Income Act 

https://www.parl.ca/legisinfo/en/bill...

For more information:

 President Cassidy Caron: https://www.metisnation.ca/presidents... 

Métis National Council: https://www.metisnation.ca/ 

The various Accords and Sub-Accords between the MNC & Canada: https://www.metisnation.ca/about/reso... 

The Métis Nation of Ontario Housing Census: https://www.metisnation.org/news/the-... 

Bill C-53: Recognition of Certain Métis Governments in Alberta, Ontario and Saskatchewan and Métis Self-Government Act : https://www.parl.ca/legisinfo/en/bill..

Bill S-233 & Bill C-223: National Framework for a Guaranteed Livable Basic Income Act 

https://www.parl.ca/legisinfo/en/bill... 

https://www.parl.ca/legisinfo/en/bill...

Podcast Links:

Click here to access Income Supports and Indigenous Peoples In B.C. - An Analysis of Gaps and Barriers

 

Click here to check outCovering All the Basics: Reforms for a More Just Society

 

Click here to read Together BC - British Columbia’s Poverty Reduction Strategy

 

Click here to access resources available via Basic Income Coalition Canada and UBI Works here

 

Click here to read Bill S-233 and here to check out MP Leah Gazan’s Bill C-233

 

Click here to check out the Parliamentary Budget Officer Report - Costing a Guaranteed Basic Income During the COVID Pandemic

 

Click here to access Perspectives, document outlining the need and benefits of implementing a Guaranteed Livable Income in 🇨🇦.

Resources

• Click here to check out Kim’s Senate Webpage
• Click here to access publications of Professor Debra Parkes
• Click here to access research by Dr. Jane Sprott
• Click here to read research by Professor Isabel Grant
• Click here to learn more about Bryan Stevenson’s work.
• Click here to get the reports, Injustices and Miscarriages of Justice Experienced by 12 Indigenous Women and Senators go to Jail.

Reports and Papers

• Click here to access Injustices and Miscarriages of Justice Experienced by 12 Indigenous Women. 
• Click here to read Carly Peddle, Emma Ronsley & Debra Parkes, Toward Abolishing the Mandatory Life Sentence and Parole Ineligibility Periods for Murder: Discussion Document.
• Click here to check out Sarah Chaster’s paper, Cruel, Unusual, and Constitutionally Infirm: Mandatory Minimum Sentences in Canada.
• Click here to access Marie-Eve Sylvestre’s research, Moving towards a minimalist and transformative criminal justice system: Essay on the reform of the principles and objectives of sentencing, prepared for the Department of Justice Canada.
• Click here to access research by the Department of Justice on MMPs
• Click here to read the Senators Go to Jail report.

Legislation

• Click here to access Bill S-233
• Click here to read Bill C-223
• Click here to check out Bill S-230

PBO Reports

• Click here to read the PBO report titled The Federal Cost of Minimum Sentences. 
• Click here to check out Demonstrative Examples of Costing Sentenced Inmates
  • Click here to access the PBO report, The Fiscal Impact of Changes to Eligibility for Conditional Sentences Imprisonment in Canada.
• Click here to check out the PBO report on the Funding Requirement and Impact of the “Truth in Sentencing Act” on the Correctional System in Canada.

Jurisprudence

• Click here to read R. v. Bissonnette, 2022 SCC 23
• Click here to access Twins v. Canada (Attorney General), 2016 FC 537
• Click here to read R. v. Luxton, [1990] 2 S.C.R. 711
• Click here to access R. v. D.B., [2008] 2 S.C.R. 3, 2008 SCC 25
• Click here to read R. v. Ipeelee, 2012 SCC 13, [2012] 1 S.C.R. 433

Other Resources

• Click here to check out Kim’s Senate Bio page
• Click here to access publications by Professor Parkes

Click here for more information about Professor Bednar and her public policy research.

Click here to access the Perspectives document on Guaranteed Livable Income by Team Pate.

Click here to check out Professor Bednar on the Cross Country Checkup Podcast

Other resources referred to in the episode:

Click here to access Professor Bednar’s paper on competition policy in Canada, mentioned at 2:45.

Click here to access a copy of the Competition Act, referred to at 2:45

Click here for resources about recent changes to Canada's child care system, as discussed at 20:20.

General topics discussed in the episode:

See the 4:00 minute mark for a discussion about the connection between competition policy issues, income inequality, and strategies to promote social and economic fairness.

See the 6:05 minute mark for Professor Bednar’s commentary on consumer protection, competition, and opportunities to empower individuals in a digital economy.

See the 7:05 minute mark for Professor’ Bednar’s commentary on rising food princes and expanding inequality.

See the 8:30 minute mark for a discussion about effective policies for eliminating income inequality, as exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

See the 11:00 minute mark for a discussion about the benefits, complications, and specific qualities of an effective guaranteed livable income policy.

See the 17:00 minute mark about the frustrating process of transforming good ideas into good policy, and the next steps for implementing competition reform.

Click here to access to Bill C-5.

Click here to read more on Bill C-22

Click here to check out Dr. Sheehy’s book Defending Battered Women on Trial.

Click here to read Justice Arbour’s Inquiry into certain events at the Prison for Women in Kingston also known as the Arbour Report

Click here to read R v Luxton

Click here to read more about R v Naslund

Click here to access the Injustices and Miscarriages of Justice Experienced by 12 Indigenous Women report

Click here to read more about the inquest in Renfrew County

Click here to access more information on the Portapique Inquiry 

Click here to read Bonnie Moonie’s story 

Click here to access more information about MPP Wynne's political career.

For more information on Guaranteed Livable Income:

Click here to access the Perspectives document on Guaranteed Livable Income by Team Pate. Click here for Bill C-223 and here for Bill S-233 on guaranteed livable basic income.

Click here for a new year's statement and update from national guaranteed livable basic income groups Basic Income Canada Network, Basic Income Canada Youth Network, and Coalition Canada, basic income – revenue du base (Coalition Canada).

Other resources mentioned in the episode: 

Click here to access the Wynne Government's Basic Income Pilot Project discussed at 1:48 and 14:10.  Click here to access Basic Income Canada Network's Signposts to Success: Report of a BICN Survey of Ontario Basic Income Recipients.

Click here to access Ontario's 2021 "Right to Disconnect" legislative initiative (Bill 27, the Working for Workers Act) discussed at 9:59.

Click here to access the Ontario Liberal Party's news release related to including a four day work week in their 2022 electoral platform, as discussed at 10:40. Click here to access an article which discusses the Zorra township's four-day work week pilot program, which was afterward permanently implemented.

Click here to access Hugh Segal's Bootstraps Need Boots, discussed at 22:12.

General topics discussed in the episode:

See the 1:40 minute mark for a discussion about the new and evolving labour laws and economic support measures being brought in, including in the context of the pandemic.

See the 10:40 minute mark for MPP Wynne's commentary about the possibility of a four-day work week, and about the evolution of workplace expectations.

See the 14:10 minute mark for a discussion about the social and economic benefits of a Guaranteed Livable Income, and the idea of such income as an "investment".

See the 21:17 minute mark for a discussion about guaranteed livable income in PEI and relevant lessons from the pandemic.

Resources and cases mentioned during the episode:

Click here to access the US Federal Study Senator Deacon discussed at the 8:44 minute mark. 

Click here to access the report from the Advisory Committee on Open Banking discussed at the 15:10 minute mark.

Click here to access more information on the Dauphin Manitoba Experience discussed at  the 17:53 minute mark.

Click here to access Senator Deacon's Senate speech discussed at the 18:29 minute mark.

More information about this episode's guest, Sheila Regehr (as seen here, on Basic Income Canada Network): Sheila is a founding member of the Basic Income Canada Network and former Executive Director of the National Council of Welfare. Her 29 years of federal public service spanned front-line work, policy analysis and development, international relations and senior management, with a focus on improving fairness and equality, and on gender and race in particular. She has policy expertise in areas of income security and taxation, such as child tax benefits, child support, maternity/parental benefits, pensions and social assistance. Her insight also comes from experiencing poverty as a young parent. Sheila is grateful, in her retirement, to have resources, time and health to do volunteer work and help care for twin grandsons.

Click here to access the website of Basic Income Now, a campaign coordinated by Canada's leading Basic Income organizations and allies (including Basic Income Canada Network).

For more information on Guaranteed Livable Income:

Click here to access the Perspectives document on Guaranteed Livable Income by Senator Pate.

Resources and cases mentioned during the episode:

Click here to access a CBC news article entitled "Nearly $2 million spent on clearing encampments should have gone to housing, advocates say" by Muriel Draaisma, related to the cost of the expulsion of "tent cities" in Toronto, discussed at the 3:00 minute mark.

Click here to access the brief document summarizing policy options suggested by Basic Income Canada Network, discussed at the 11:54 minute mark.