BC NDP take more heat from opposition over contracts for consultants, advisers [Video]

British Columbia’s NDP government is taking more fire from the opposition BC Conservatives over contracts it has awarded to top advisers.

The opposition is raising new questions after the province hired Dr. Tim Stainton’s consultancy to review Community Living B.C.

Stainton was one of the people who helped create the Crown corporation tasked with caring for some of B.C.’s most vulnerable people.

CLBC’s board is also chaired by former NDP cabinet minister Shane Simpson.

“It seems that the NDP continues to go to the well with former ministers, former electeds. It makes you wonder how little confidence they have in their own current cabinet members when they have to do this,” BC Conservative finance critic Peter Milobar said.

“And the bigger problem is the lack of transparency. Never a disclosure of how much they are getting paid, what the deliverable is expected.”

The BC Conservatives are also flagging the appointment …