Progress On Systemic Discrimination

I once had a Math Professor who said "If you can't measure it, it doesn't exist."  I take that advice with a dose of skepticism, but numbers can be revealing.  In the case of the Systemic Discrimination agreement. there is the constant buzz of prose but not a whole lot of numbers.

In a post in May, 2023, I tried to count the issues to be addressed in the provisional settlement agreement between the province and the Disability Rights Coalition on the subject of Systemic Discrimination.  My inexpert eye came up with this summary: 

and a more detailed timeline:

I thought I'd take another look in 2026.  Turning  to the province's "Annual Progress Report - Targets and Compliance Year 3: 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026" you will find a 40 page multi-column table like this:

which is doubtless accurate but so detailed as to defy summary.  The Province uses vague terms like Slight Progress, Sufficient Progress, Subtantial Progess, and Exact Compliance to categorize its results.  DRC has its own version, 8 pages with yellow highlights, but still difficult to hold in your brain.  It looks like this:

The last two pages of the DRC summary carry a good suggestion: Let's have an accurate index that s a bit easier to grasp.   DRC identifies the goal, the progress and the legal requirement for eight tasks.  I had to guess at a 2023 Base for a couple of numbers.  But the numbers seem accurate enough so that a "percent achieved" can be calculated for each and a weighted summary produced:

CATEGORY	2023 BASELINE	NEW SPACES	GOAL 3/31	DONE (WEIGHT)	SHORTFALL	PERCENT FINISHED
NO SUPPORT	589	231	0	358	-127	60.8%
LARGE INSTUTIONS	870	311	653	311	-342	47.6%
INTENSIVE	?	42	80	42	-42	47.5%
LOCAL COORDINATERS	?	55	80	55	-25	31.3%
FLEX, ILS+	0	159	600	159	-441	26.5%
<65 MOVED OUT	10	0	200	10	-190	5.0%
HOMESHARE	0	0	200	0	-200	0.0%
TSA	83	-87	40	0	-170	-46.0%

Weighted Summary 47.6%

Put that in a graph and you get  an understandable picture of where in the agreement we stand.  Only halfway to where we should be!

REMEDY INDEX=WEIGHTED AVERAGE OF COMPLETED/2023 BASE 

Now we have a sensible presentation that will be a foundation for good questions and better answers.

• Does this reflect a plan?
• What is the main reason for each shortfall?
• What is the catchup plan?

Now my general objection is backed by Dr. Prince's year 3 monitoring report - a 4 alarm fire to be sure.