Oh, yes. Jeez. If only she had an opinion that she could use, but she doesn’t. She has to just sit over there and heckle me on mine.

Journey to Belonging is the program that is now seeing privatization. We’re seeing Community Living homes—

Journey to Belonging is now seeing Community Living homes being sold off for profit—

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I understand that they hate my opinions, but my opinions come from real people. They come from real stories. They come from seniors who have adult children who have lived in community homes for 40 years, and now those homes are under threat of privatization and nobody will answer their questions. Nobody knows what’s happening. Everything is a veil of secrecy.

And these families are stressed. These parents have advocated. Imagine: They’re in their seventies; their children are in their forties, and they’re high-needs. And so they’re in these homes that they have been in for all of these years, these beautiful homes that they have relationships with, and this government is allowing them to be privatized. They have no idea what’s happening, and the ministry refuses to answer their questions. If the government would have seen fit to ensure that the 5% increase that Community Living had been begging, begging, begging for—they all showed up for the photo ops, and refused to give it to them.

My heart sank when I heard that they didn’t get the 5%. I couldn’t believe it. I thought there was no way that they’re not going to get it. They were at every pre-budget consultation throughout this province, making sure members clearly heard their plea for that 5%, and they got 2.2%. It’s just an absolute disregard for human life, for vulnerable human lives that count on a system to care for them, for senior parents who finally thought that they were going to be able to just rest and not have to advocate their entire lives, because you know these families have been fighting the system and advocating their entire lives just to keep their kids safe.

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