Province pressured to bring Community Living BC back under direct government control [Video]

The B.C. government is dismissing calls from one of its biggest public-sector unions to fold the Crown corporation responsible for the care of vulnerable people and to retake direct control of its work.

The B.C. General Employees Union (BCGEU), which represents workers at Community Living BC (CLBC), says the Crown corporation is a bloated bureaucracy that wastes money that should be spent on the people who need it more.

Community Living BC provides a range of supports and services for adults living with developmental disabilities.

BCGEU president Paul Finch told Global News the move to carve CLBC out of the provincial government in 2005 was a “failed experiment.”

“This is not providing the governance and oversight that is required,” he said.

“These are issues that span the scope and breadth of their interaction with other service agencies, with parents, caregivers, clients and frankly the people who work there.”

The push …