All we know for certain about MSWP is that things will be different in years to come. OACL and Local Associations are having to reinvent themselves in order to remain influential and relevant. We have seen detail on Res-Care in documents circulated by OACL and by Dr. Trish Spindel. Perhaps they lower staff qualification, increase the size of facilities, reduce the level of service to individuals. We must ask who is going to lose out.
Privatization depoliticizes the system for the government.
It lowers the standards so that all of us are forced to adhere to these lower standards. Privatization risks a reduction of the involvement of volunteers and the community. The chairperson of the new board in Niagara Area will be appointed and will be charged with appointing the rest of the Board. The Board will have no ties to existing community services. The Ministry has picked up phrases that we have used in the last few years and are throwing them back at us.