{"id":4933,"date":"2020-06-20T12:34:54","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T15:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=4933"},"modified":"2020-06-20T13:53:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T16:53:54","slug":"is-money-starting-to-grow-on-trees-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2020\/06\/20\/is-money-starting-to-grow-on-trees-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Is money starting to grow on trees in Canada?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/TreeMoney.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4934\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/TreeMoney.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/TreeMoney-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 85vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The <em>Green Party<\/em> (provincial and federal) as well as <em>Qu\u00e9bec Solidaire<\/em> (their equivalent in Qu\u00e9bec) keep asking for a universal basic income guarantee. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is a recent article in the <em>NB Media Coop<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-nb-media-co-op\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"tpsGr37I57\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nbmediacoop.org\/2020\/06\/19\/canadians-should-have-guaranteed-access-to-2000-per-month-basic-income-canada-network\/\">Canadians should have guaranteed access to $2,000 per month: Basic Income Canada Network<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Canadians should have guaranteed access to $2,000 per month: Basic Income Canada Network&#8221; &#8212; NB Media Co-op\" src=\"https:\/\/nbmediacoop.org\/2020\/06\/19\/canadians-should-have-guaranteed-access-to-2000-per-month-basic-income-canada-network\/embed\/#?secret=tpsGr37I57\" data-secret=\"tpsGr37I57\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is the platform of <em>Qu\u00e9bec Solidaire <\/em>(one\nof the opposition parties there):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/plateforme.quebecsolidaire.net\/Pour%20%C3%A9liminer%20la%20pauvret%C3%A9%20et%20r%C3%A9partir%20la%20richesse\/Revenu%20minimum%20garanti\">https:\/\/plateforme.quebecsolidaire.net\/Pour%20%C3%A9liminer%20la%20pauvret%C3%A9%20et%20r%C3%A9partir%20la%20richesse\/Revenu%20minimum%20garanti<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From where would this communist-like idea be funded, if not from Canadians\u2019 taxes? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More hand outs means more taxes and public debt. Didn\u2019t we have enough before the pandemic? So, imagine after. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why should we pay people to do nothing? How would this\nencourage the productivity and entrepreneurship of citizens and, thus, the economy\nof Canada?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why are we asking for more dependence of people on governments?\nIs this healthy? Is this wise?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bambi likes some of the great ideas of the green party (she has been following their federal leadership race news lately. She even has a preferred candidate ?). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seriously, this basic income idea is SURELY not one of\nher favourite ones. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is a recipe for an economic and social disaster for\nCanada\u2026 and even for tiny bankrupt Lebanon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To conclude this post on a lighter note, there is a funny myth in less fortunate countries that, in America (the USA mainly but also Canada), immigrants start collecting gold once they land there (gold found on the streets!). A man (neighbour of her family) once joked with Bambi when she was visiting Lebanon asking her if she has been doing this in Canada all those years. She replied: \u201c<em>All day long! I have back pain now. Do you want to come to help me?<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Green Party (provincial and federal) as well as Qu\u00e9bec Solidaire (their equivalent in Qu\u00e9bec) keep asking for a universal basic income guarantee. Here is a recent article in the NB Media Coop: Here is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4933"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4933"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4939,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4933\/revisions\/4939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}