Beyond Food Banks: The Case for Basic Income to End Hunger & Food Insecurity in Canada

In 2021, food insecurity affected about 5 million Canadians, including 1.4 million children, with serious implications for health. Food banks have been the primary response to food insecurity for 4 decades, but they serve only about 20-25% of food-insecure Canadians. Food banks cannot address the underlying cause of food insecurity, which is poverty, but a guaranteed liveable basic income could.

Elaine Power is a professor in the School of Kinesiology & Health Studies at Queen’s University and a co-founder of the Kingston Action Group for a Basic Income Guarantee. With Jamie Swift, she is co-author of The Case for Basic Income: Freedom, Security, Justice published in 2021, describing the prematurely cancelled Ontario Basic Income Pilot (2017-18).

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