Our team

Coalition Canada Basic Income is advancing the development of a national movement for basic income in Canada.

Who We Are

Our team has joined us from basic income advocacy groups from across Canada:

  • Barbara Boraks, Toronto, ON (External Affairs Coordinator, Ontario Basic Income Network)
  • Bill Cooper, Kingston, ON (Professor Emeritus, Smith School of Business, Queen’s University; Kingston Action Group for a Basic Income Guarantee)
  • Brian Dodd, Calgary, AB (Co-Chair Basic Income Calgary; Member Basic Income Alberta)
  • Carol Stalker, Waterloo, ON (Professor Emerita, Faculty of Social Work, Wilfred Laurier University; Member of Coordinating Committee, Basic Income Waterloo Region)
  • Claudia Leduc, Montreal, PQ
  • Colleen Christopherson-Cote, Saskatoon, SK (Saskatoon Poverty Reduction Partnership)
  • Cory Neudorf, Saskatoon, SK
  • Elizabeth (Mandy) Kay-Raining Bird, Halifax, NS (Professor Emeritus, Dalhousie University; Chair, Basic Income Nova Scotia)
  • Eric Ambtman, Edmonton, AB (End Poverty Edmonton
  • Josh Smee, St. John’s, NL (Food First)
  • Keitha Clark, Whitehorse, YK (Yukon Anti-Poverty Coalition)
  • Kerry Lubrick, Hamilton, ON (Basic Income Hamilton)
  • Kristina Craig, Whitehorse, YK (Executive Director, Yukon Anti-Poverty Coalition)
  • Larry Neufeld, Regina, SK
  • Luc Gosselin, Québec City, QC (Revenu de base Québec) 
  • Marie Burge, Charlottetown, PEI (50 years of community engagement work for social justice: Cooper Institute; Latin American Mission Program; PEI Working Group for a Livable Income/C-BIG PEI; National Farmers Union)
  • Mark Baetz, Waterloo, ON (Basic Income Waterloo)
  • Rachel Blais, Iqaluit, NU (Qajuqturvik Community Food Centre)
  • Sandi MacKinnon, Fredericton, NB (Greater Fredericton Social Innovation)
  • Sid Frankel, Winnipeg, MB (Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Work, University of Manitoba; Board member, Basic Income Manitoba; Board Member, Social Planning Council of Winnipeg)
  • Stephanie Corrin, Montague, ON (Social Justice Advisory Coordinator, The Table Community food Centre)
  • Susan Abells, Victoria, BC (Basic Income BC)
  • Toni Pickard, Kingston, ON (Queen’s University Faculty of Law (ret’d); External Relations Coordinator, Kingston Action Group for a Basic Income Guarantee; Founding Coordinator, Coalition Canada: basic income – revenu de base).
  • Trish Altass, Charlottetown, PEI (Research Coordinator, PEI Advisory Council on the Status of Women)
  • Veronica Felizardo, Perth ON (Social Worker)
  • Wil Robertson, Ottawa, ON (Basic Income NB; Basic Income Canada Youth Network)