Taxpayers and Residents are the Victims

The government is continuing its disrespect for tax payers and for vulnerable care facility residents. Aside from the lack of any business case being provided for this deal, Shannex, the recipient of the sole sourced contract, has one of the worst records in the province for abusing residents.

There is also research available to the government that for profit care facilities aren't good value (I'll link in an upcoming post) yet the government continues to put our money into private pockets.

Here's an excerpt from the Halifax Examiner's October 28, 2024 article detailing this issue:

"In other words, Houston said what’s important are those 178 beds, and voters needn’t worry and aren’t entitled to know how the government procured them or how much public money (now in the hundreds of millions of dollars) was spent.“