Quote Originally Posted by cfred View Post
Now they're stating that ONLY children in care BEFORE Royal Assent (Dec.4th, 2014) are allowed to stay till Jan 2016, but anyone coming into care afterward (say, Dec 5th onward) must be compliant now. And I'm afraid that not knowing about it won't exempt you from the massive fines if they catch you out of compliance. In fact, either the Minister of Education or the Premiere of Ontario (can't remember which off the top of my head now) stated openly that the fines from Independent Providers being caught out of compliance will pull in revenue for the province. This makes quite a few of us feel that there might be a bit of a witch hunt occurring and we've heard of a number of surprise visits.
This is the first time I've heard this confirmed and it has my blood boiling for the simple fact of, how the hell are IDP's supposed to know this??? There has been no effort on the governments part, clearly, to inform the GP or the industry professionals of this small but huge detail. How many above board providers could potentially have their reputation ruined innocently due to the fact that they didn't know. Even for someone like me who frequents this site, I was not aware of it. Lot's of providers are following this and are not aware of it. This once again just reinforces that this is just about money. Money for the agencies and money for the province which as you said was said outright by the government but one thing I am yet to hear from a single person is how this crock of a bill makes any child in Ontario safer. What a load of crap! So glad I'm getting out.