6 months of basic income during coronavirus could cost Canada $98B: PBO Motion-46’s goal is to fill the gaps in income and inequalities that have been “worsened by the pandemic.”A basic income means different things to different people, but it is usually viewed as a no-strings-attached benefit governments provide to citizens instead of various targeted social benefits.Also known as a guaranteed minimum income, it can be delivered as a universal payment, or as a means-tested benefit that declines as a recipient’s other income rises.Gazan has been working in collaboration with Basic Income Manitoba and the Basic Income Canada Network on the motion.“Canada’s income security system has always contained many gaps, inequalities and.