Editor:
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought for-profit privately owned and operated long-term care facilities into the news in the most horrific way. The public has been shown that the level of care in those facilities is not only inadequate, in some cases it is totally inhuman. The facilities are understaffed and the employees are underpaid, with the result that they have had to work in more than one facility in order to make ends meet.
Surely the shocking proof that the research about for-profit long-term care facilities is indeed correct gives the B.C. government a legitimate reason to cancel the contract with Trellis. Surely the members of the government cannot in good conscience insist on giving the Sunshine Coast a for-profit privately owned and operated long-term care facility after seeing concrete evidence of what happens in such facilities. To do so would be to put the most vulnerable residents of the Sunshine Coast at great risk.
Rosemarie Blenkinsop, Sechelt
