Appointed - Conversation w Kendal David: Basic income, Canada Disability Benefit & Youth engagement

On this episode of Appointed Podcast (recorded earlier this summer), Senator Kim Pate sat down with Kendal David, co-chair of Basic Income Canada Youth Network to discuss Bill C-22: Canada Disability Benefit, Bill S-233: National Framework for a Guaranteed Livable Basic Income Act and the important work that the Basic Income Canada Youth Network is doing to imagine and work towards a more fair, just and equitable Canada. With an academic focus on disability justice, Kendal and Kim discussed the crucial need for more adequate and careful consultation and data collection to ensure no one gets left behind in the implementation of Bill C-22, especially those most marginalized in disability communities. Finally, the duo spoke of the possibilities a basic income guarantee could provide to ensure everyone is able to live a life with dignity and true choice.

Kendal David is a PhD student at Carleton University’s School of Social Work. She holds an MSW (Carleton University) and BSW (University of Calgary). Kendal’s current PhD research uses feminist disability studies and critical discourse analysis to examine poverty policy in Canada. More about Kendal and how to contact her is available via her Carleton webpage.

Kendal’s work with Invisible Institutions - discussed in the podcast - included creating policy briefs which examine institutional exclusions from federal disability data and institutional allowances via social assistance. Kendal’s other published research has included analyses of Ontario’s poverty reduction strategy, and her MSW thesis which explored and challenged what it means to be a social worker in Alberta. In June 2023, a peer-reviewed article based on her MSW thesis data was published in Critical Social Work, available here. More about Kendal’s published and public research is available via her ResearchGate profile.

Learn more about the Basic Income Canada Youth Network by checking out our website. You can stay up-to-date with our work by following us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok! Some of Kendal’s favorite BICYN content also lives on the network’s YouTube page.

BICYN’s most recent op-ed in The Hill Times (not mentioned in the podcast - but super relevant to the podcast!) is about the Canada Disability Benefit and why we still need a guaranteed basic income. It was written by BICYN directors Alexandra Zannis and Ellen Spannagel. (https://www.hilltimes.com/story/2023/...)

Kendal's academic work:
https://carleton.ca/socialwork/people...
https://invisibleinstitutions.com/
https://invisibleinstitutions.com/pol...
https://invisibleinstitutions.com/pol...
https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2022...
https://doi.org/10.22215/etd/2021-14559
https://ojs.uwindsor.ca/index.php/csw...
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/...

To learn more about the Basic Income Canada Youth Network

Website: https://www.basicincomeyouth.ca/
Youtube:    / @basicincomecanadayouthnetw8430  
Twitter:   / bicyn_  
Tiktok:   / basicincomeyouthca  
Instagram:   / basicincomeyouthca  
For more on the bills discussed in the episode:

Bill C-22: Canada Disability Benefit Act https://www.parl.ca/legisinfo/en/bill...
Bill S-233: National Framework for a Guaranteed Livable Basic Income Act
https://www.parl.ca/legisinfo/en/bill...