so, why don't we just fund social assistance via market dividends, then?
we'd have to put down an initial investment. but, isn't that what a wealthy family does when it has a disabled child? so, why shouldn't a wealthy province do the same thing, for it's disabled population?
you could use the teacher's fund as a model.
and, the next government can pick it up when it brings back the ubi - which it will do. after all - isn't this the capitalist way to socialize production in the face of mechanization?