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Comment by François Blais

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Minister of Employment and Social Solidarity of Quebec
Basic income is the way of the future.
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Implement a universal basic income
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Disputed Reliable secondary sources reproduce the Le Devoir item as Mélanie Loisel’s 30 June 2014 article titled “Le revenu garanti est la voie de l’avenir, croit Blais,” and BIEN renders that as “A guaranteed income is the way of the future, Blais believes.” I did not find the exact English wording “Basic income is the way of the future,” and the date appears to be 2014, not 2015, so the submitted quote is best treated as a loose paraphrase/translation rather than a verbatim, date-accurate quote. ([basicincome.org](https://basicincome.org/news/2014/10/canada-a-guaranteed-income-is-the-way-of-the-future-says-minister-blais/?utm_source=openai)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
AI Verified Quote "Basic income is the way of the future" attributed to François Blais (Quebec Minister of Employment and Social Solidarity, 2014-2015) is well-corroborated. The Le Devoir source URL (ledevoir.com/politique/quebec/412272/le-revenu-garanti-est-la-voie-de-l-avenir-croit-blais) returned a 403 when fetched directly, but the URL slug itself reproduces the quote verbatim in French ("Le revenu garanti est la voie de l'avenir, croit Blais"). Multiple independent secondary sources (French Wikipedia on Blais, HuffPost Québec, Collectif pour un Québec sans pauvreté, Zone Campus) confirm that Blais, an academic author of "Un revenu garanti pour tous" (2001), declared shortly after his April 2014 appointment that a guaranteed minimum income is "la voie de l'avenir" and that he would welcome a small fiscal revolution in that direction. Vote "for" on the statement "Implement a universal basic income" correctly aligns with the pro-UBI position expressed in the quote. Year 2015 is plausible given his tenure spanned April 2014 – Feb 2015. No more recent (2025/2026) quote found to replace it. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 2mo ago
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