Florence Girard, a woman with Down syndrome, weighed about 50 pounds when she died in 2018 in the Port Coquitlam home of Astrid Dahl, a caregiver funded through Crown corporation Community Living B.C. (CLBC).

After the week-long inquest into Girard’s death in January, a jury made 11 recommendations to CLBC, including better pay for front-line caregivers and changes to support family members of a vulnerable individual who want to care for their relative in their home.

Now, the province says it is commissioning an independent review of the organization’s home-sharing program, to be conducted by contractor Tamar Consultancy.

Tamara Taggart, the president of advocacy organization Down Syndrome B.C., said the province didn’t need to hire a consultancy firm to make changes at CLBC, given the inquest’s recommendations in January.

“I have no idea how much money this is costing, but whatever it is, it’s too much because we know what the answers are,” she told CBC News.