🇨🇦 $59 million later, Nova Scotia admits it barely had contracts

This is the managerial state in one lawsuit: Nova Scotia shoveled more than $59 million in public money to Specialized Support Services since 2016, then discovered it may have overbilled, ignored staffing ratios, and operated for years with no master contract and sometimes no written contract at all, as reported. The province now waves around an $18.2 million estimate, while the company says Deloitte only flagged $870,600 for roughly three months in 2024 and that bureaucrats simply extrapolated the rest. Translation: nobody serious was steering the ship.

And who pays for this circus. Taxpayers, while vulnerable children and disabled adults get turned into revenue lines in a province addicted to outsourced social engineering and zero accountability. This is late-stage Trudeau-era governance at the provincial level too: endless contractors, consultants, audits, withheld invoices, and courtroom theatrics after the cash is gone. The Canadian state can lecture citizens about compliance, but somehow cannot manage basic oversight over care services it funds with our money.

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