Universal basic income in Canada

Mincome, the "Manitoba Basic Annual Income Experiment", was a Canadian guaranteed annual income (GAI) social experiment conducted in Manitoba in the 1970s. The project was funded jointly by the Manitoba provincial government and the Canadian federal government under Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. It was launched with a news release on February 22, 1974, under the New Democratic Party Manitoba government of Edward Schreyer, and was closed down in 1979 under the Progressive Conservative Manitoba government of Sterling Lyon and the federal Progressive Conservative Party of Joe Clark. The purpose