Speaking of  UBI, Canadian readers check out bill S-233, "An Act to develop a national framework for a guaranteed livable basic income".   If it should be enacted, the Minister (which Minister?) has a year to determine what constitutes a livable basic income, create national standards for health and social supports, ensure that participation in education, training, or labor markets is NOT required to qualify, and any implementation does not decrease sevices or benefits to anyone. 

1.  How is this going to be paid for?
2.  Lack of gainful employment requirements will surely exacerbate mental health issues and drug problems.
3.  This is a Liberal power play to create more dependency and accrue more authority over every citizen
4.  The sponsor is female Senator Kim Pate nominated by Trudeau in November, 2016

A form of UBI already in existence would be government pension plans like US Social Security and Canadian CPP (Canada Pension Plan).  I think it can be said that most first world countries have something similar for their retirees.  The big difference is that all these programs have a contribution component where the benefits upon reaching retirement age are loosely related to what each recipient has contributed during their working career.  This lessened the problem of financing and also demonstrates how even benefit plans based on participant contributions very quickly diverge from self financing because it is too easy for politicians to promise new benefits and impossible for them vote the taxes necessary to keep them solvent. 

For this reason alone, UBI plans of governments are certain fail.  No amount of MMT (Modern Monitary Theory) can ever save them.  One can therefore say with confidence that all such programs are doomed to fail despite herculean efforts of politicians to implement them now and foist the cost off on future generations via debasement of fiat currencies.  UBI programs will only incentivize more helpless unmotivated people, drag down the economy, and wreck the traditon of freedom and self-reliance that make a country great.