Joshua Hewitt of Thunder Bay, Ont., and his son, Arthur. Hewitt is a single father and says having a basic income would make a huge difference to his family.
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It was axed in the summer the following year, shortly after the Conservatives under Premier Doug Ford came into power.Tracey MacKinnon, an anti-poverty advocate in Thunder Bay, has had similar experiences to Crosson."It was nice to see my cupboards, my fridge, my freezer ... full of food. That never happened before.
"My heart sank because I had a three-year plan to pay off line of credit and have this business up and running enough that I wouldn't need to be on ODSP anymore," Mechefske said of the program's cancellation.In the years it's taken for the lawsuit to be certified, "We've had people die by suicide because they were going to be forced back into this hole that they couldn't get out of," Mechefske said.
After the pilot program ended, his three-year plan was tossed out the window. Now a single dad on Ontario Works , Hewitt said having a basic income would have made a huge difference for his family.
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