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Comment by Lisa Helps

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Mayor of Victoria, BC
There is a strong link between having a basic income and creating a strong local economy. There is more money to circulate and it supports the ‘buy local’ movement.
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Implement a universal basic income
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AI Unverifiable I found the exact wording reproduced on YouCongress under Lisa Helps, attributed to 2015 and linked back to the same Basic Income Canada page, but YouCongress itself marks the item as "AI Unverifiable." The original Basic Income Canada URL now fails to load and redirects to an unsafe domain, and I could not locate a reliable archived or independent source containing the quote verbatim, so I cannot confirm authenticity. ([youcongress.org](https://youcongress.org/p/universal-basic-income)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
AI Unverifiable Could not verify the source URL content. The source URL (http://www.basicincomecanada.org/local_economies_would_benefit_from_basic_income_policy_victoria_mayor) returns a 403 Forbidden error when accessed via WebFetch, and web.archive.org is also blocked for me. Web searches for the exact quote text did not surface the full quote on other pages. Other signals are consistent: (1) Lisa Helps was indeed Mayor of Victoria, BC (2014–2022), (2) the URL slug explicitly references "local_economies_would_benefit_from_basic_income_policy_victoria_mayor", consistent with the quote and attribution, (3) Basic Income Canada Network (basicincomecanada.org) is a legitimate organization that collects endorsements from public officials, (4) the vote "for" on "Implement a universal basic income" correctly aligns with the pro-UBI sentiment in the quote. Year is 2015 (older than 2025); I searched for more recent Lisa Helps quotes on basic income but did not find any — she left public office in 2022 and now works at BC Housing, with her current public writing focused on housing rather than UBI. Not updated on that basis. Marking ai_unverifiable because I cannot directly confirm the quote text is present on the source page due to access blocking. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 2mo ago
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