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MemberMy daughter has a moderate to severe "Verbal Behavior". She is in Kindergarden and will turn 6 next month. I am desperately LOOKING FOR A GOOD CONSULTANT AND A SENIOR THERAPISTS as soon as possible.
We had an EIBI program before but are now changing to ABA program.
Please, if anyone know/ or who can help me find a consultant, please e-mail me asap.
We live in South Burnaby area, (close to 22nd St. Skytrain Station)MemberReminder Notice
Come One, Come All – School is NOW in Session!This Monday January 26, 7-9pm at the West Vancouver Library 925-7400; 1950 Marine Drive, West Vancouver. Main Intersection: Marine Dr/20th Ave
We are pleased to present School is NOW in Session: A Parent Presentation on Reviewing IEPs and School Treatment Plans and Effectively Managing the Home/School Relationship. Presenter will be FEAT Director Jean Lewis who has been an effective advocate for her own child within the school system for over 5 years.Entrance is by donation; coffee and treats supplied. All are welcome and we hope that you can join us for this very educational session.
Sharpen your pencils and bring your notebooks – We will help you slay your giant!
Tamara + Anissa
ASBC North Shore Co-Facilitators
_____________________________________
AGENDAMonday January 26; 7:00-9:00 pm; Peter J. Peters Room
Intro to topics; 10 min 7:05-7:15
Tamara Leger + Anissa Lalani1. Measurable IEPs and School Treatment Plans 30 min 7:15-7:45
– What Should Be In Your Child's IEP
– What Does a Great IEP Look Like
– What happens at Recess/lunch, circle time, academic vs. social skills
– Who is responsible for covering the ground
– Who evaluates the data
– Behaviours2. How to Review Your IEP 30 min 7:45-8:15
– What does the review process look like
– Setting new goals or changing direction: how often and when
– How to know if you are in trouble
– As a parent/case manager how should you prepare for this meeting3. Effectively Managing the Home/School Relationship 30 min 8:15-8:45
– Communication + meetings
– Working with the school case manager
– Accountability: who is responsible for covering the IEP ground
– Testing + SLP services: private or let the school test/provide service
– Field trips, SEA and reporting structure4. Conclusion 15 min 8:45-9:00
MemberSchool is NOW in Session!
Mon January 26, 7-9pm at the West Vancouver Library 925-7400; 1950 Marine Drive, West Vancouver
Main Intersection: Marine Dr/20th AveSchool is NOW in Session: A Parent Presentation on Reviewing IEPs and School Treatment Plans and Effectively Managing the Home/School Relationship.
Presenter will be FEAT Director Jean Lewis who has been an effective advocate for her own child within the school system for over 5 years.
MemberTo Tamara Leger:
Would you please let us know the address of the West Vancouver Library? Thank you very much.MemberCome One, Come All – School is NOW in Session!
On Mon January 26, 7-9pm at the West Vancouver Library we are pleased to present School is NOW in Session: A Parent Presentation on Reviewing IEPs and School Treatment Plans and Effectively Managing the Home/School Relationship. Presenter will be FEAT Director Jean Lewis who has been an effective advocate for her own child within the school system for over 5 years.
Entrance is by donation; coffee and treats supplied. All are welcome and we hope that you can join us for this very educational session.
Sharpen your pencils and bring your notebooks – We will help you slay your giant!
Tamara + Anissa
ASBC North Shore Co-Facilitators
_____________________________________
AGENDAMonday January 26; 7:00-9:00 pm; Peter J. Peters Room
Intro to Panel + topics; 10 min 7:05-7:15
Tamara Leger + Anissa Lalani1. Measurable IEPs and School Treatment Plans 30 min 7:15-7:45
– What Should Be In Your Child's IEP
– What Does a Great IEP Look Like
– What happens at Recess/lunch, circle time, academic vs. social skills
– Who is responsible for covering the ground
– Who evaluates the data
– Behaviours2. How to Review Your IEP 30 min 7:45-8:15
– What does the review process look like
– Setting new goals or changing direction: how often and when
– How to know if you are in trouble
– As a parent/case manager how should you prepare for this meeting3. Effectively Managing the Home/School Relationship 30 min 8:15-8:45
– Communication + meetings
– Working with the school case manager
– Accountability: who is responsible for covering the IEP ground
– Testing + SLP services: private or let the school test/provide service
– Field trips, SEA and reporting structure4. Conclusion 15 min 8:45-9:00
MemberHi my son has recently been diagnosed with autism we would like to set up a home based ABA program and would be greatful if anyone could give us recommendations for behavioural consultants. Most of the consultants we have contacted have lengthy waitlist. One name we were given was Suzanne Jacobsen, does anyone have experience with her. My son is 51/2 so we would like to get a program started asap. We feel we have lost valuable time as it has taken us over 2 years to finally get a diagnosis. My email address is pocokids@yahoo.ca.
Thanks
MemberIn case you wonder where our child's money is going.
Special prosecutor to probe B.C. case
Head of government agency questioned over firm's dealingsSean Holman
Special to Times ColonistSaturday, January 17, 2004
Children and Family Development Minister Gordon Hogg, left, with Douglas Walls, acting CEO of the province's interim authority for community living.
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A special prosecutor has been named to look into an RCMP report concerning business practices at a car dealership once run by the head of a B.C. government agency.
Geoffrey Gaul, spokesman for the criminal justice branch of the Attorney General's Ministry, said that Vancouver lawyer Josiah Wood was appointed last week as a result of enquiries by the Times Colonist.
Wood will act as a special prosecutor to work with the RCMP regarding activities at the Prince George dealership previously owned by Douglas Walls, acting CEO of the province's interim authority for community living.
Walls, a former president of a B.C. Liberal riding association and relative by marriage of Premier Gordon Campbell, has denied any wrongdoing by himself or the company.
He was quietly appointed to his current position six months after the office of Children and Family Development Minister Gordon Hogg was notified that allegations of fraud had been made against Walls by the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.
Walls denies those accusations, which arose while he managed the auto dealership as a family business in Prince George. Neither the Mounties nor Gaul would confirm whether the CIBC allegations are included in the report. But a bank official said CIBC handed its evidence to the RCMP.
RCMP spokesman Const. Mike Caira said in an interview that the force's commercial crime unit has submitted a report to Crown counsel recommending charges against "former employees and management" of the dealership, Fred Walls & Sons Ltd.
Cpl. Sandy Smith, who works with the RCMP's commercial crimes unit, confirmed that is the report being looked at by Wood. The Mounties would not say whether Walls is among those facing potential charges.
Walls also received thousands of dollars in untendered government contracts through a grant given by the Ministry of Children and Family Development to the B.C. Association for Community Living. The way those contracts were awarded raised concerns among some officials connected with the issue. However, Walls maintained that favouritism played no role.
Walls received the contracts as part of a provincial government initiative to move responsibility for the care of the developmentally disabled from the ministry to a new independent authority that is expected to take over this role in June.
Last January, the executive committee of the interim authority that is overseeing the transition decided to make Walls its acting chief executive officer.
In a letter to Deputy Minister Chris Haynes that was obtained by the Times Colonist, David Driscoll, co-chairman of the interim authority, wrote of Walls: "His official title within the organization will remain 'Senior Consultant, Planning and Development,' but for the purposes of the Interim Authority's bylaws and for purposes of all Ministry-related activity and involvement, he has been designated as the CEO."
The appointment was not formally announced. When Hogg was asked in the legislature two months later who was heading the association, he did not mention Walls's name. Hogg said only that "they will be going through a selection process at some time in the next number of months."
Driscoll, who was a board member of the B.C. Association for Community Living at the same time Walls was president, said in an interview he was not aware of the allegations concerning Walls, but would have looked into them had he known about them.
In 2002, Walls received $63,823 in untendered contracts over a six-month period to work on the transition project. The money came from a grant of $450,000 that the ministry provided to the Association for Community Living. According to government procurement policies, contracts of more than $25,000 must be put out to tender.
The money that went to Walls, however, came from seven separate contracts so that none individually exceeded the $25,000 limit. Walls said in an interview the contracts were awarded without competition because the fund it came from was "an unconditional grant," so normal government procurement rules did not apply.
However, Hogg and Driscoll said the transition committee was expected to follow the rules in obtaining goods and services.
The untendered contracts upset at least two members of the committee overseeing the transition — and one of them made sure that Hogg knew about her concerns.
Alanna Hendren, executive director of the Developmental Disabilities Association, faxed Hogg on July 8, 2002. She said Walls had "contracted with government through the (transition committee) for a great deal of money but there was no competitive process for those contracts and certainly no review of his qualifications at the project support and admin level. This raises a great number of concerns for me and others."
Hogg said he passed those concerns to Haynes. The minister said his understanding was that Haynes had requested a review by the office of the auditor general, but Eroll Price, a senior official at the auditor general's office, said no review was conducted. Haynes did not return phone calls.
Ten days after sending the fax, Hendren e-mailed Hogg's executive assistant, Ed Masters, again questioning the contracts given to Walls. She attached copies of the allegations made by CIBC.
"I don't think I need to point out that all this information is publicly available," she wrote, "and, in my opinion does not help the minister, nor this government look very good, particularly as Doug Walls had told many people that he is related to the premier and has a major 'in' with the minister."
Hendren did not explain that "in" in her e-mail. However, Walls's wife, Sharon, is a cousin of the premier's wife Nancy. Walls is also a former president of the Prince George-Omenica Liberal riding association, and has a longstanding professional relationship with Haynes.
The two met in Prince George when Haynes was a regional manager for the ministry there and Walls was president of the Prince George Association for Community Living. The father of a disabled daughter, the 51-year-old Walls has been active in the community living movement for some 20 years.
Hogg acknowledged he knew about Walls's business problems, even before receiving Hendren's e-mail — although he was not aware of the details. However, he said in an interview, those problems did not concern him because Walls had an enthusiastic endorsement from Advanced Education Minister Shirley Bond.
Hogg said Bond told him that Walls "had exceptional skills. And she had great confidence in him and his integrity. She said he had some issues in the Prince George area that needed to be dealt with, but she had confidence he could carry out the work."
Those "issues" stem from Walls's time running Fred Walls & Sons, a car dealership his father founded in 1946. Under Doug Walls's leadership, the business was successful at first but fell on hard times in the depressed markets of 1997 and 1998. It went bankrupt in 1998.
According to a B.C. Supreme Court judgment, the troubles got worse in March 1998 when an official from the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce discovered a "kiting" of cheques between the dealership's account there and accounts of two numbered companies set up by Fred Walls & Sons at a Prince George credit union.
("Kiting" occurs when someone writes a cheque knowing the account has insufficient funds to cover its value. It is possible because banks will often make funds available from a deposited cheque before verifying whether there is money available to cover the cheque. Kiting can carry a penalty of up to 10 years in jail.)
Supreme Court Justice Ian Meiklem noted Walls admitted to bank officials "that between the CIBC and the Spruce Credit Union one or the other would be 'out about $1 million.' "
On the basis of that evidence, CIBC requested a summary judgment for damages against Walls and his business partner Mike Millard. But during the court case, Walls said CIBC officials "knew and acquiesced in the way the accounts were being operated."
Those differing stories meant the issue would have to be resolved through a full trial — something that Walls's lawyer, Jan Christiansen, said his client wanted. Instead, CIBC communications director Rob McLeod says the bank turned its evidence over to police.
After an investigation, which began in May 1998, the RCMP's commercial crime unit submitted a report recommending criminal charges against "former employees and management" of Fred Walls & Sons.
That report, which includes court documents from a recent civil case, is being looked at by special prosecutor Wood.
Sean Holman is editorial director of Public Eye magazine. This article was prepared with the assistance of freelance journalist Barbara McLintock.
© Copyright 2004 Times Colonist (Victoria)
MemberIn case you wonder where our child's money is going.
Special prosecutor to probe B.C. case
Head of government agency questioned over firm's dealingsSean Holman
Special to Times ColonistSaturday, January 17, 2004
Children and Family Development Minister Gordon Hogg, left, with Douglas Walls, acting CEO of the province's interim authority for community living.
ADVERTISEMENT
A special prosecutor has been named to look into an RCMP report concerning business practices at a car dealership once run by the head of a B.C. government agency.
Geoffrey Gaul, spokesman for the criminal justice branch of the Attorney General's Ministry, said that Vancouver lawyer Josiah Wood was appointed last week as a result of enquiries by the Times Colonist.
Wood will act as a special prosecutor to work with the RCMP regarding activities at the Prince George dealership previously owned by Douglas Walls, acting CEO of the province's interim authority for community living.
Walls, a former president of a B.C. Liberal riding association and relative by marriage of Premier Gordon Campbell, has denied any wrongdoing by himself or the company.
He was quietly appointed to his current position six months after the office of Children and Family Development Minister Gordon Hogg was notified that allegations of fraud had been made against Walls by the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.
Walls denies those accusations, which arose while he managed the auto dealership as a family business in Prince George. Neither the Mounties nor Gaul would confirm whether the CIBC allegations are included in the report. But a bank official said CIBC handed its evidence to the RCMP.
RCMP spokesman Const. Mike Caira said in an interview that the force's commercial crime unit has submitted a report to Crown counsel recommending charges against "former employees and management" of the dealership, Fred Walls & Sons Ltd.
Cpl. Sandy Smith, who works with the RCMP's commercial crimes unit, confirmed that is the report being looked at by Wood. The Mounties would not say whether Walls is among those facing potential charges.
Walls also received thousands of dollars in untendered government contracts through a grant given by the Ministry of Children and Family Development to the B.C. Association for Community Living. The way those contracts were awarded raised concerns among some officials connected with the issue. However, Walls maintained that favouritism played no role.
Walls received the contracts as part of a provincial government initiative to move responsibility for the care of the developmentally disabled from the ministry to a new independent authority that is expected to take over this role in June.
Last January, the executive committee of the interim authority that is overseeing the transition decided to make Walls its acting chief executive officer.
In a letter to Deputy Minister Chris Haynes that was obtained by the Times Colonist, David Driscoll, co-chairman of the interim authority, wrote of Walls: "His official title within the organization will remain 'Senior Consultant, Planning and Development,' but for the purposes of the Interim Authority's bylaws and for purposes of all Ministry-related activity and involvement, he has been designated as the CEO."
The appointment was not formally announced. When Hogg was asked in the legislature two months later who was heading the association, he did not mention Walls's name. Hogg said only that "they will be going through a selection process at some time in the next number of months."
Driscoll, who was a board member of the B.C. Association for Community Living at the same time Walls was president, said in an interview he was not aware of the allegations concerning Walls, but would have looked into them had he known about them.
In 2002, Walls received $63,823 in untendered contracts over a six-month period to work on the transition project. The money came from a grant of $450,000 that the ministry provided to the Association for Community Living. According to government procurement policies, contracts of more than $25,000 must be put out to tender.
The money that went to Walls, however, came from seven separate contracts so that none individually exceeded the $25,000 limit. Walls said in an interview the contracts were awarded without competition because the fund it came from was "an unconditional grant," so normal government procurement rules did not apply.
However, Hogg and Driscoll said the transition committee was expected to follow the rules in obtaining goods and services.
The untendered contracts upset at least two members of the committee overseeing the transition — and one of them made sure that Hogg knew about her concerns.
Alanna Hendren, executive director of the Developmental Disabilities Association, faxed Hogg on July 8, 2002. She said Walls had "contracted with government through the (transition committee) for a great deal of money but there was no competitive process for those contracts and certainly no review of his qualifications at the project support and admin level. This raises a great number of concerns for me and others."
Hogg said he passed those concerns to Haynes. The minister said his understanding was that Haynes had requested a review by the office of the auditor general, but Eroll Price, a senior official at the auditor general's office, said no review was conducted. Haynes did not return phone calls.
Ten days after sending the fax, Hendren e-mailed Hogg's executive assistant, Ed Masters, again questioning the contracts given to Walls. She attached copies of the allegations made by CIBC.
"I don't think I need to point out that all this information is publicly available," she wrote, "and, in my opinion does not help the minister, nor this government look very good, particularly as Doug Walls had told many people that he is related to the premier and has a major 'in' with the minister."
Hendren did not explain that "in" in her e-mail. However, Walls's wife, Sharon, is a cousin of the premier's wife Nancy. Walls is also a former president of the Prince George-Omenica Liberal riding association, and has a longstanding professional relationship with Haynes.
The two met in Prince George when Haynes was a regional manager for the ministry there and Walls was president of the Prince George Association for Community Living. The father of a disabled daughter, the 51-year-old Walls has been active in the community living movement for some 20 years.
Hogg acknowledged he knew about Walls's business problems, even before receiving Hendren's e-mail — although he was not aware of the details. However, he said in an interview, those problems did not concern him because Walls had an enthusiastic endorsement from Advanced Education Minister Shirley Bond.
Hogg said Bond told him that Walls "had exceptional skills. And she had great confidence in him and his integrity. She said he had some issues in the Prince George area that needed to be dealt with, but she had confidence he could carry out the work."
Those "issues" stem from Walls's time running Fred Walls & Sons, a car dealership his father founded in 1946. Under Doug Walls's leadership, the business was successful at first but fell on hard times in the depressed markets of 1997 and 1998. It went bankrupt in 1998.
According to a B.C. Supreme Court judgment, the troubles got worse in March 1998 when an official from the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce discovered a "kiting" of cheques between the dealership's account there and accounts of two numbered companies set up by Fred Walls & Sons at a Prince George credit union.
("Kiting" occurs when someone writes a cheque knowing the account has insufficient funds to cover its value. It is possible because banks will often make funds available from a deposited cheque before verifying whether there is money available to cover the cheque. Kiting can carry a penalty of up to 10 years in jail.)
Supreme Court Justice Ian Meiklem noted Walls admitted to bank officials "that between the CIBC and the Spruce Credit Union one or the other would be 'out about $1 million.' "
On the basis of that evidence, CIBC requested a summary judgment for damages against Walls and his business partner Mike Millard. But during the court case, Walls said CIBC officials "knew and acquiesced in the way the accounts were being operated."
Those differing stories meant the issue would have to be resolved through a full trial — something that Walls's lawyer, Jan Christiansen, said his client wanted. Instead, CIBC communications director Rob McLeod says the bank turned its evidence over to police.
After an investigation, which began in May 1998, the RCMP's commercial crime unit submitted a report recommending criminal charges against "former employees and management" of Fred Walls & Sons.
That report, which includes court documents from a recent civil case, is being looked at by special prosecutor Wood.
Sean Holman is editorial director of Public Eye magazine. This article was prepared with the assistance of freelance journalist Barbara McLintock.
© Copyright 2004 Times Colonist (Victoria)
MemberMore government cuts
IA, BCACL sell out Community Living:
New budget deal shows leaders agreed to 3 X the cuts required for adult services under revised June 03 Ministry budget planThe Interim Authority for Community Living BC has just posted details of a backroom budget deal for community living which they negotiated with the Ministry for Child and Family Development (MCFD) and convinced most agencies to endorse over the holidays.
http://interimauthorityclbc.ca/PDF/ServiceProviderBudgetStrategy.pdfThe budget proposal requires total cuts for the non-profit community agencies who provide adult community living of $60 million over 2003/04 and 2004/05. That's almost triple the $22 million cuts to the entire Community Living sector required in the Ministry's revised budget plans announced in June 2003 (see attached).
The budget proposal acknowledges that these cuts pose significant risks, including staff cuts, service cuts, termination of services and significant cuts to programs that assist families in coping, stating that "this change may result in health and safety concerns being raised by families."
Meanwhile, limited news from the Ministry's other main sector, child and family services, suggest further cuts of 10% to 16% being enforced across the board at a time when the bulk of the 12% cuts have already been made. Clearly, Minister Hogg and his Cabinet colleagues are making an outrageous grab for extra savings from Hogg's vulnerable clients to meet their fiscal targets, confident that they can get away with this while the media is distracted with the Victoria scandal.
The Community Living document also sounds a warning for agencies who don't play along, calling on government to "aggressively pursue and accomplish forced reductions" of at least 5% for them, on top of new budget cuts identified in this deal.
The agreed-upon cuts amount to approx $10 million for 2003/04 and another $50 million for 2004/05.
In total that's a 14% cut relative to the $435 million budget for Community Living agency contracts. It comes on top of the $50 million already cut through voluntarily savings offered by agencies in this sector in 2002/03. Altogether, that's more than 20% cut from agencies in this sector over three years.
These agency cuts also come on top of the cuts to the Ministry's own operations, which support Community Living and Child and Family services. (The Ministry had cut 700 of its 5,000 staff by June 2003. In Sept 2003 they announced another 525 would be cut by April 2004 for additional savings of $18 million. Many of those staff were front-line social workers and support workers.)
How does this measure up to government commitments?
MCFD originally planned 23% cuts ($360 million) Ministry-wide over three years (2002-2005). Of that, the share for Community Living was originally slated at 17% of the 2001 baseline budget.
Following a June 2003 Budget Review which clearly identified the grave harm such cuts would cause, Premier Campbell revised the Ministry's overall budget reduction target over three years from $360 million to $172 million. At that point, the Ministry said it had already achieved $100 million in savings, which left a further $70 million in cuts to be found by 2004-05. Cuts to Ministry operations would achieve $18 million, as later announced in September, and several other measures would accomplish the remaining $52 million reduction required.
The Ministry stated that the share of cuts still to come for Community Living would total $22 million in all, and that this could be achieved relatively painlessly through voluntary inititiatives to achieve savings through efficiencies (see attached).
In early December, it became clear that this plan had hit a snag, with the leak of a letter from Deputy Minister Chris Haynes demanding that agencies help achieve $100 in cuts or face widespread contract retendering (see attached). Widespread reports of the Deputy Minister calling non-profit agency Board members at home to threaten them into compliance set off further alarm bells.
Just before the holidays, word leaked that a budget reference group, selected by Hogg's appointees in the process to devolve community living services, had reached a compromise budget deal. BCACL, the association representing agencies which has worked very closely with Hogg and his IA, urged all members to endorse this deal, warning that the alternative would be "draconian" measures (see attached). BCACL regretfully admitted this deal would increase risk and that no cuts were justified (in a system where 2/3 of clients are on waiting lists). But they assured agencies this was the best deal possible.
The IA and BCACL leadership, strong proponents of the controversial plan to devolve services to a new provincial Community Living authority, suggested that their devolution plan could be in jeopardy if they didn't play along. What they forgot to mention was that the original plan for a family-led community governance model, which has shape-shifted into a new bureaucracy with a single provincial office and a corporate board of political appointees, has already betrayed the dreams of most of its original proponents.
Families who got wind of the budget deal over the holidays expressed strong disapproval, accusing leaders of betrayal and charging that the deal violates numerous key commitments, including:
– The government's commitment to put the welfare of vulnerable individuals ahead of fiscal objectives.
– That no cuts or service changes would be made forcibly in community living
– That any savings found through efficiencies would first go to addressing waitlists
– That families and individuals would be consulted before any changes were made.When the final terms of the budget deal were finally made public this week, it became clear that the betrayal went far deeper. Hogg's appointees at the Interim Authority and agency leaders at BCACL have convinced agencies to agree to budget cuts that almost triple the government's own revised budget reduction targets for community living.
As part of the budget deal, the BCACL and IA-sponsored Budget Reference group committed that they and other agencies would work with government to develop a communications strategy to sell the deal to the public. They acknowledged the need to move slowly to avoid an "uancceptable" level of negative reaction from the community.
They also acknowledge that the plan poses significant risks, including staff reductions, service reductions and termination of some services. It is also acknowledged that the cuts "will significantly impact non-residential programs that traditionally provide limited support to families that assist them in coping this change may result in health and safety concerns being raised by families."
The proposal outlines how the cuts are to be achieved, through a mix of voluntary and forced cuts to agency budgets, along with savings that government hopes to help agencies achieve through wage/benefit rollbacks for unionized agency staff under current contract negotations. Some of these new cuts have already been agreed to, though most remain to be actually implemented on the ground.
While the language suggests that most cuts will be voluntary, there is a clear warning for agencies that don't comply. Section 3.4 states that the Ministry will "aggressively pursue and accomplish forced reductions in funding for agencies identified in Initiative 12 [non-voluntary] at a level not less than five percent per annum exclusive of the across the board funding reductions specified" in the proposal.
The document also offers conflicting thoughts on the extent that the wishes and concerns of families and individuals must be respected in implementing the cuts.
The release of this document raises serious questions about the role of the Interim Authority, BCACL and others who negotiated this deal with Hogg on behalf of the sector and who have agreed to help him sell it to agencies and the wider community. This closed circle of Hogg appointees originally proposed the 2001 plan to devolve governance, implement individualized funding and achieve 20% cuts in a transition to a new provincial authority that they would control following restructuring. They have served as the main cheerleaders for Hogg's disastrous program to radically downsize and dismantle his own Ministry, ignoring widespread community opposition (see feedback at http://www.mcf.gov.bc.ca/change/cltsc_comments.htm ) and repeated warnings from a series of experts appointed by Hogg himself.
The boards of both organizations have sold out a highly-vulnerable community that put its faith in them and they need to seriously question whose interests they are serving. In light of these revelations, both boards should resign immediately.
Minister Hogg and his Deputy, meanwhile, are just doing the job that Premier Campbell and Finance Minister Collins assigned them–i.e. dismantling their own Ministry while trying to avoid generating "unacceptable" levels of negative reaction from the public.
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