The proposed reforms through Bill 175 will privatize health care services, weaken public oversight, remove legislative protections, undermine home care working conditions, and unleash an untested, home care experiment. Chaos beckons. Bill 175 is permissive, allowing a laissez-faire framework for home and community care. It repeals the more detailed Home Care and Community Services Act, 1994 and leaves most details to policy or regulation. Deviously, the government has made the Bill ( Connecting People to Home and Community Care Act, 2020 ) little more than an empty shell that doesn't even establish a new home and community act. So, for example, the Home Care Bill of Rights is not in the proposed legislation. Instead, it may be put into regulation. This approach removes the public accountability that comes with legislation. Regulations and policies are changed with little public consultation. One would think that in today’s world a Home Care Bill of Rights would not be re
Notes from Leftwords -- Doug Allan