AI is melting incomes. UBI is your leverage.
When’s the last time you asked for a raise?
For many people, that question feels harder to answer than it used to. Not because they don’t deserve it, but because the balance of power at work is shifting.
What’s being lost right now isn’t just jobs. It’s leverage.
AI is impacting income potential even if you’re not replaced. It’s not just about who gets fired, it’s about who never gets hired in the first place. Businesses say automation will free people up to do higher-level work, but that’s becoming an increasingly exclusive club. The doorway into stable, well-paying jobs is getting smaller.
We’ve seen this before. Every industrial shift gave machines more of the work, and workers lost ground before they regained it. It took decades of struggle to rebuild that balance through unions. We can’t wait that long again.
Universal Basic Income is that leverage.
It’s not relief after displacement. It’s leverage before displacement. It gives people a real floor, the power to negotiate, to retrain, to walk away from bad terms, and to participate in the economy on better footing. It also ensures the gains of technology trained on humanity’s work and funded by the public are shared broadly.
This isn’t a left or right issue. Canadians in every party and sector already support this. Polling shows basic income is the #1 choice among Canadians to address job automation.
This petition sends a clear message to your MP, provincial representatives, and senators: act now to restore power to working Canadians.
Your message will call on leaders to:
Recognize that AI is eroding workers’ leverage and income potential across the economy, and to centre their work around this
Support basic income as a stable floor and a dividend from the gains of automation
Meet with the relevant Ministers on why this is critical to their mandates
Connect with UBI Works to advance practical next steps
Sign now to reclaim your leverage and your voice in government.
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