A Conversation with Ottawa City Councillors Theresa Kavanagh and Marty Carr re: Ottawa's Support for a Guaranteed Livable Basic Income & Its Importance as a Means of Addressing Income Insecurity and Health

Appointed: A Canadian Senator Bringing Margins to the Centre

On this episode of Appointed, Senator Kim Pate speaks with Ottawa City Councillors, Theresa Kavanagh and Marty Carr. This fabulous duo successfully presented a motion on July 10, 2024, supporting a Guaranteed Livable Basic Income. They were inspired by the Ottawa Board of Health June 17, 2024 resolution supporting a Basic Income Guarantee for all people over the age of 17 as a means of addressing poverty, the number one social determinant of ill health.

Kim and the Councillors discuss the importance of a Guaranteed Livable Basic Income, the potential it has to support safety, autonomy, the social determinants of health, and other inequities faced by Ottawa citizens and Canadians more broadly.

Councillor Carr represents the area of Alta Vista, and Councillor Kavanagh is the councillor for the By Ward region of Ottawa.

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Senator Pate’s Guaranteed Livable Basic Income Fact Sheets can be read here

City Council Motion to Support a Guaranteed Basic Income for Canadians available here & here

Ottawa City Council Backs Basic Income can be watched here

Bill S-233, An Act to develop a national framework for a guaranteed livable basic income can be read here

An Op-Ed by Councillor Marty Carr can be found here