BIEN Canada Ottawa Conference

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

Income Security for All Canadians:
A Workshop to Explore the Potential for a
Guaranteed Income Framework for Canada

Sponsored by:
Basic Income Earth Network Canada (BIEN Canada)

October 1 – 1pm-9pm
October 2 – 9am-5pm

Dominion Chalmers United Church
355 Cooper Street (corner of Cooper and O’Connor Streets)
Ottawa, Ontario

Registration:

$50 regular registration
$15 low income/student registration

Purpose of this Workshop

The purpose of this workshop is to share perspectives and build understandings about approaches to Guaranteed Income. BIEN Canada believes that such sharing will aid the continued growth and mobilization of a network of individuals and organizations in Canada committed to realizing an expanded basic/guaranteed income system for Canada, and thus to realizing income security for all Canadians.

Who Should Participate?

The workshop is designed to both inform and engage participants in discussion of a variety of approaches and models for achieving Guaranteed Income and universal income security. The target audience includes “first voice” persons (those with the lived experience of poverty), academics and researchers, social justice movements, community organizations, social and economic policy analysts, and government officials and politicians.

If you are interested in an informal meeting of researchers working on guaranteed income on Thursday morning, please email Mike McCracken (mccracken[at]informetrica.com) to confirm your interest.