Showing posts with label services. Show all posts
Showing posts with label services. Show all posts

Monday, June 25, 2012

CLBC ... Creating Lies, Bedlam, and Chaos


The letters “C”, “L”,”B”, and “C” used to stand for Community Living British Columbia … now, more aptly; they should stand for Creating Lies, Bedlam, and Chaos.

Last Fall, British Columbians were rightly outraged that Executives of Community Living BC were receiving huge bonuses, while at the same time the agency was cutting back on services.  So what did the Liberal government say they would do? 

BC Premier Christy Clark
Christy Clark said, and led us to believe, they had ordered an end to the bonuses.  As we now all know, they waited for 6 or 7 months, and then rolled the ‘bonuses’ into the pay of these same CLBC executives.

Was that honest or truthful?  Not according to Jordan Bateman, of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation:
"Whether implicitly or between the lines, we were led to believe last fall that the bonus structure was gone. I think most taxpayers thought that meant that money was going to go back into front-line CLBC services where it belongs, and yet now we find out that really nothing's changed, just the way the executives get this money has been altered."

Still, Christy Clark insists that we have it all wrong … that we don’t understand … and that the opposition coming from the BC Conservative Party, the NDP, and the advocacy groups like Moms on the Move, have it all wrong ... and that some are deliberately misrepresenting the facts.

Christy … there is only ONE group misleading the province … that is the BC Liberal party.

DON’T tell us we don’t know the facts!

Friday, October 21, 2011

The fall-back answer is, “We can’t afford it” … and ... "You're not bad enough YET to get services"

How many of you have seen / read the CBC news story, "B.C. school shorting autistic son, mother says"?

In part the story says that only part of the special education funding allocated to a six year old, grade one boy with autism, is being used to help him at school.  His mother says, "He's not getting the support he needs"

Now before anyone says, “… there isn’t the money in the system to provide the care this boy needs …” you may be interested to know that there are two different government ministries which are providing $36,000 to the school district where the young boy, named Cooper, is enrolled.

Would anyone care to venture a guess as to why Cooper is NOT getting the supports that he should be receiving … and that the school district is receiving funds for?    

Cooper’s mother, Crystal Gerrits, was told, “...  if he was acting out more, Cooper would get more time with an assistant."