Interesting that regionalization is now on hold. Leslie has gone on the record to say that she does not support the regionalization of aboriginal services. I wonder how the ministry will work its way around that obvious conflict. They have invested heavily and created some goodwill with the aboriginal community by promising an independent child welfare system. How do they get out from under that promise?

Would you post the "record" source you refer to please and how to access it? Thank you.

Let's hope Ms. Du Toit is looking very closely at the "regionalization" of MCFD's other arm -- i.e. the devolution of community living to CLBC. Despite almost five years and tens of millions poured into trying to make the transformation work, it has so far solved nothing and created a whack of new problems.

...which is exactly what the Albertans warned us back in 2001, when they shared the lessons learned from their own earlier devolution of community living.

...but it's probably nothing that a little consultation won't fix. Just find 26 people who'll swear that your new vision reflects their lifelong hopes and dreams and you're good to go. Then all you need is a bottomless restructuring budget for new IT systems, a service model that offers 100 innovative ways to say "No" to people in crisis, a great communications consultant, another consultant who can write those brilliant policies that mean whatever you want them to mean at the moment and you're all set to hold the course as you crash over the rocks and reefs.

...it's all about knowing how to operate outside the limits of the reality-based community, you know.