Interesting. The liberal party have made minimum income an official party policy (note - this does not automatically make this a government policy)
http://winnipeg2016.liberal.ca/policy/poverty-reduction-minimum-income/
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/05/30/basic-income-canada-liberal-party-policy_n_10210380.html
Certainly some pros and cons to this. Apparently when this was done as an experiment in Manitoba in the 70s, it yielded positive results.
Recommended listening:
http://freakonomics.com/podcast/mincome/