Starting in 2014, the Liberal Party of Canada,[REF] the Green Party of Canada,[REF] the Pirate Party of Canada,[REF] provincial party Québec Solidaire,[REF] and conservative senator Hugh Segal[REF] have been advocating for basic income in Canada.
In 1968, James Tobin, Paul Samuelson, John Kenneth Galbraith and another 1,200 economists signed a document calling for the US Congress to introduce in that year a system of income guarantees and supplements [REF].