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Do you know the life care facility called Parkland?  I've never been in, but it seems nice enough.  At a minimum, it costs $2825/mo or $93/day.

Do you know Kings Regional Rehabilitation center?  They say they have over 200 'clients' - let's say 250.  On average they each cost taxpayers $413/day or  $150,893/year.

Taxpayers?

It is funded 97.6% by government

It receives zero dollars in charitable donations, yet it is listed as a charity by the CRA.  

Question:  Why is this a charity and not a government department?

The top 10 earners at KRRC account for $1,120,000

$80-120k	7
$120-160k	3

The CRA annual report for this charity (2021) lists this source of revenue:

Total revenue from sale of goods and services ............ $320,586

Presumably, the goods are the products of the labor of 'clients'.

Question:  Why aren't 'clients' entitled to the fruits of their own labor and why do they subsidize high earners?

 

Employees at KRRC belong to CUPE, not NSGEU.

Question: what is the difference in employer-paid benefits and salary levels and does that account for governments desire to have this be a third-party operation?

You can read the collective agreement here.

The fundamental question:  Why not give the $150,893 to each client(or their guardians) to spend on the services they determine to be best for themselves?

Not convinced?  Here are revenue sources for five more members of DirectioNS, the trade association.

Name	Province	Province Share	Sale of Goods	Donations	Total Revenue
Shelburne Association Supporting Inclusion	$2,810,486	96%	$131,782	$300	$2,942,568
CARLETON ROAD INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION	$600,162	37%	$862,769	$626	$1,628,068
THE REGIONAL OCCUPATIONAL CENTRE SOCIETY	$1,264,106	89%	$148,204	$4,883	$1,426,206
SUNSET RESIDENTIAL AND REHABILITATION SERVICES INCORPORATED	$13,453,537	98%	$166,491	$1,497	$13,688,480
(CAPE) Center for Adults in Progressive Employment Society	$445,487	91%	$15,205	$3,500	$492,196
Kings Regional Rehabilitation	$35,749,630	98%	320586	0	36633966
Total	$54,323,408	96%	$1,645,037	$10,806	$56,811,484

No doubt some are better than others, but

• they are all segregated operations
• mostly for people with an extra copy of chromosome 21 - Down Syndrome
• they are provincially funded operations masquerading as charities
• they don't pay people they're supposed to be helping

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An excellent and not-too-lengthy history of Nova Scotia's response to Chromosome 21 and cognates is Needs and Circumstances of People with Disabilities, those with Intellectual Disabilities and Government Response in Nova Scotia, an expert opinion prepared for a Nova Scotia Human Rights Board of Inquiry 

It describes out-of-step government reaction to evolving understanding of intellectual differences and contains this moving quotation:

"I admire the courage of persons with disabilities who get up every morning and withstand the insults, the frustrations, the stares, the rejections and humiliation. For them, life is very challenging. Isn’t it the height of injustice that at the end of the day, many of them return to the place they live – the place they call home - only to find another trial to be endured?”