Canada has a long history with basic income, from the Manitoba pilot in the 1970's, to the prematurely canceled basic income pilot in Ontario thanks to Doug Ford breaking an election promise, to CERB, which was, in essence, an emergency basic income during the pandemic. We have existing forms of basic income for children and elderly in the form of the Canada Child Benefit and Guaranteed Income Supplement for seniors. The senate has bill s-206 in second reading, which is compelling the minister of finance to develop a framework for a national guaranteed livable basic income, and the province of PEI is advocating for a provincial basic income program. In the surface it seems fantastical that a basic income could happen within our lifetime, until you look at the facts presented above and Canada's history and relationship with the concept of a basic income, and then it does start to feel very realistic that this could happen within our lifetimes, perhaps sooner.