The Minister must develop a national framework for the implementation of a guaranteed livable basic income program throughout Canada for any person over the age of 17, including temporary workers, permanent residents and refugee claimants.
After reading this document, I feel that it is still ambiguous. However 88 billion (the cost estimate in the OP article) divided by the population of canada is 2200, which I think wouldn’t be considered a livable annual income, so I think what they’re talking about must have some kind of means testing.
Source: https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/44-1/bill/S-233/first-reading
After reading this document, I feel that it is still ambiguous. However 88 billion (the cost estimate in the OP article) divided by the population of canada is 2200, which I think wouldn’t be considered a livable annual income, so I think what they’re talking about must have some kind of means testing.
If you remove kids under 17 it gets closed to 3000, but you might be right. It seems the idea is to make it a specific amount based on region.