Thunder Bay-Atikokan MPP Judith Monteith-Farrell is demanding answers from Doug Ford for local participants of the Basic Income Pilot Project cancelled by the Ford government.
At Queen’s Park, she got personal, highlighting the plight of two area residents.
She says Sherry Mendowegan wasn’t told by the government that the program was going to be scrapped, instead learning about the decision over social media.
Monteith-Farrell says Mendowegan had enrolled in school and planned to use the Basic Income as a step out of poverty.
She also talked about Dawna George-Morrison, whose father was a World War II veteran and her mother a victim of a residential schools.
Monteith-Farrell says she was on disability and caring for her 8-year-old grandson.
She says on basic income, George-Morrison could buy food, stressing now she will have to resort to food banks.
The NDP member says local recipients have been told that their last payments will be at the end of August.
