I am all for basic income, but as an Ontario resident, this was not basic income. This was an opportunity to give 4k people within a very specific demographic (mainly voters for the incumbent party = the working poor) free money and see what happens. Without giving it to those at the real bottom (jobless) or those in other brackets, it's not very scientific in terms of piloting basic income. The new party basically ran on "roll back all the damage and overspending the prior party put in place, then figure out how to do it properly" which if you live here isn't the worst deal necessarily. We are in somewhat of a Make Ontario Great Again situation now though, with the former party that put this in place being like a way, way less competent version of the Obama democrats. Not we have an (arguably) more competent version of the Trump republicans in place. Suffice to say Toronto is pretty unhappy, but the rest of the province is mostly happy about it.