May 31, 2013 - Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry

B.A. CYR - DR.EX. (WALSH) MAY 31, 2013
D.L. ROUSSIN - DR.EX. (WALSH)
S.E. TAYLOR - DR.EX. (WALSH)
D.M. KNOL - DR.EX. (WALSH)
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So their accountability is different.
Like, some people
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really just want numbers and some people really want the
stories, you know, the parents' stories about -- and see
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that as, as valuable information and that.
So I think the
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province is more, they're listening more to the, the
participants and stuff and the workers, but I think the
feds are still wanting numbers, and I've a problem with
numbers because, you know, 50 people came today may look
good but maybe there were 10,000 that could have come so 50
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doesn't look good, you know what I mean.
So you could use
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those numbers any way you want to, so I have a problem with
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numbers.
I mean I'm accountable, totally so accountable,
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it's so crazy accountable.
MS. WALSH: Um-hum.
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MS. KNOL:
That so much of the time is spent
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being accountable and doing reports and everything and then
you're still dealing with a non-profit, you're dealing with
staff, you don't have a million -- I got 28 staff. I'm the
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executive director and I have a finance manager.
That's
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who takes care of the day to day, you know, staffing stuff
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and everything else.
Plus I do -- community comes to me
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because my door is open.
So, and that's the way I learn
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because I want to know what's happening in all my programs
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in the centre.
I don't want to just be the boss over here
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because that's how I think the system works.
I'm the boss
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