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# Academics and activists from across the globe issue open letter to Ontario Government on Basic Income
- URL: https://www.iqra.ca/2018/academics-and-activists-from-across-the-globe-issue-open-letter-to-ontario-government-on-basic-income/
- Published: 2018-09-18T20:11:11.000Z
- Updated: 2018-09-18T20:11:11.000Z
- Author: iqradotca
- Tags: Basic Income, Canadian Muslims, iqra, IQRA.ca, Islam Canada, Muslim Canada, Muslims in Canada, Reflections, Uncategorized

We, collectively, represent the principal investigators, research teams and stakeholder groups behind several distinct basic income experiments underway in Finland, Scotland, the Netherlands, the USA, Spain, Kenya and India. We profoundly regret that you chose to cancel the Ontario Basic Income Guarantee Experiment prematurely.

Each of our experimental designs is somewhat different, reflecting our own political and social context. Together these experiments have the potential to produce data upon which evidence-informed social policy might be based. Ontario represented a key piece of the analysis, and has been watched closely by policymakers and researchers around the globe.

We are deeply concerned that the experiment was cancelled with no concurrent announcement that you intend to continue the promised stipends for the full period of the planned experiment. It appears to us that 4,000 vulnerable research subjects will have made decisions to improve their lives based on participation in the experiment, only to have the promise broken.

As you are no doubt aware, standards for the ethical conduct of social experiments involving humans have evolved significantly in recent years. Not only is the cancellation inconsistent with international best practices, but it violates your own Canadian policy for the ethical conduct of experiments involving humans.

Canada’s continuing leadership on balanced and humane economic policy has always mattered deeply to the international community. We ask you to reconsider. The world is watching.

Olli Kangas  
The Finnish BI Experiment  
Strategic Research/Academy of Finland  
Professor of Practice  
Dept. of Social Sciences  
Fi-20014-University of Turku

Markus Kanerva  
The Finnish BI Experiment  
Managing Director and Founder, Tänk: Independent Finnish Think Tank

Loek Groot  
Utrecht Experiment  
Utrecht University School of Economics

Joe Huston  
Kenya Project  
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Jurgen di Wispelaere  
Policy Fellow, Institute for Policy Research  
University of Bath

Philippe Van Parijs  
University of Louvain: Hoover Chair of Economic and Social Ethics

Arjen Edzes  
Social Assistance Experiment, Groningen  
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

Ruud Muffels  
Social Assistance Experiments, Tilburg and Wageningen  
Universiteit van Tilburg

CHBM Speirings  
Social Assistance Experiment, Nijmegen  
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen

János Betkó  
Social Assistance Experiment, Nijmegen  
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen

Jamie Cooke  
Scottish BI Pilot Project  
Director of RSA Scotland at the Royal Society of the Arts

Annie Miller  
Scottish BI Pilot Project Stakeholders’ Group

Sarath Davala  
Madhya Pradesh, India

Laia Ortiz  
Project B-Mincome (Barcelona)

Deputy Mayor for Social Rights  
Barcelona City Council

Lluis Torrens  
Project B-Mincome (Barcelona)  
Director of Innovation and Planning of Social Rights  
Barcelona City Council

Dr. Stacia West  
Co-Principal Investigator for Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration (SEED)

Dr. Amy Castro Baker  
Co-Principal Investigator for Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration (SEED)

Lori Ospina  
Director of Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration

Natalie Foster  
Economic Security Project (USA)

Chris Hughes  
Economic Security Project (USA)

Taylor Jo Isenberg  
Economic Security Project (USA)

The Jain Family Foundation  
Economic Security Project (USA)

Evelyn L Forget  
University of Manitoba