ACT BIG Conference

Name: (DAY/TIME TBA) Basic Income Advocacy in an age of Uncertainty - Where we Go from Here
Start: 2025-06-05T04:00:01-0300
End: 2025-06-05T04:00:01-0300

Thursday June 5, 2025 TBA

This session will examine how best to advocate for a guaranteed livable basic income in an era of pessimism, hardship, and fatigue amongst advocates. How do we find success? Where should we focus our efforts? How do we re-energize basic income advocates?

This session will examine the success of local advocacy, particularly in municipalities, across Canada, and its impacts on the basic income movement. The presentation will look not simply at what has gone into local advocacy in the Maritimes, but across Canada, and how precisely it has grown our movement, and more importantly - why.

As a contrast to this local progress, the session will examine the intent and impact of advocacy regarding Bill C-223 and S-233. Despite prorogation killing both Bills, they have helped to grow our movement and energize advocates, while ensuring basic income remains a policy conversation at the national level.

This session will go over how both advocacy efforts came about and were organized, what we have learned from them, and what lessons we take forward in our advocacy in the coming months during a turbulent political period.

Speakers

Wil Robertson (He/Him)

Ontario Basic Income Network

Wil is a an active basic income advocate with Basic Income Ottawa, Ontario Basic Income Network, and Coalition Canada Basic Income. In his professional capacity, he is consultant in the Government Relations practice at StrategyCorp, Canada's leading integrated public affairs firm... Read More →

Thursday June 5, 2025 TBA

ACT BIG Conference

Wil Robertson (He/Him)

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