Canadians are speaking up for Basic Income Bill #S233, which is 1 vote away from Third Reading. This week, we mobilized thousands of advocates across Canada to write & call the Senate Committee on National Finance. Here are a some of their personal letters to the senators:

For decades, Alberta's Heritage Fund has been a case study in the squandering of common natural resource wealth, often compared to Alaska's (~$80B) and Norway's (~$2T) much larger oil funds that invest on behalf of citizens. "The Smith government intends to build up the provincial Heritage Fund to $250-$400 billion by 2050 in order to reduce the government’s dependency on oil and gas revenue. The fund currently stands at $26 billion, so there’s work to be done!" This renewed mandate is a promising sign, and it should be underpinned by a collective understanding that non-renewable resources are a shared inheritance that should benefit not just current, but future generations too. As Jack Mintz writes: "Stabilization is not the Heritage Fund’s only objective. So is intergenerational equity. Resources taken out of the ground and sold are gone for good." This is arguably one of the most important problems of our generation for Canada and the provinces to get right. Read on ↓