In your criticism you are missing some crucial details surrounding this report.
This is essentially scrounging to make the most out of what was a single, but fully budgeted, study on BI with the intention of running more studies.
The study was cancelled by the incoming government out of spite. All people who set up plans, knowing the full length of the study beforehand were suddenly tossed out of the program and it was just down, including any study occurring.
They're trying to gather what and any information they can from the program that wasn't even given the chance to run to completion.
This is essentially scrounging to make the most out of what was a single, but fully budgeted, study on BI with the intention of running more studies.
The study was cancelled by the incoming government out of spite. All people who set up plans, knowing the full length of the study beforehand were suddenly tossed out of the program and it was just down, including any study occurring.
They're trying to gather what and any information they can from the program that wasn't even given the chance to run to completion.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/basic-income-pilot-project-fo...