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COMMENTARY: Choosing care: Implementing basic income guarantee

Caregiving encompasses tasks and responsibilities that enable people to live independently and participate in community.

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Caregiving can be provided for older adults, people with disabilities, children, and community well-being. Caregiving means providing health and physical care, mental, spiritual and emotional care, meaningful social connection – activities can run the entire gamut of imagination. Sometimes caregiving is a paid, professional responsibility. Often, it is not remunerated at all. Nearly half of Canadians aged 15 or older reported providing some form of care in 2022 (Statistics Canada, 2022b).

Caregiving has long been undervalued and unacknowledged. It’s the often-invisible tasks that hold people and families in relationship, providing physical labour and emotional and mental support. It’s the caring for one another that holds communities together and allows our economy to thrive. Without childcare, parents can’t work. Without long-term care and home care, families are pushed out of the workforce. Without nurses, teachers, personal support workers, and early childhood educators and assistants, there is no productivity, no innovation, and no economic........

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