Dead end in education and health

To think that the signing of new collective agreements will solve all the problems is another utopia. We must decentralize, bring decisions closer to workplaces. We are experiencing a unique opportunity to take charge of ourselves, to stop thinking that the government can solve everything.

Bureaucratization and centralization have created monsters that the government cannot control. It has become impossible to resolve all the problems from Quebec. To imagine that the reforms envisaged in health and education will solve the problems is a utopia.

Messrs. Legault, Dubé and Drainville, health and education are not industries, we cannot manage everything from head office, we cannot standardize everything. We work with humans, not machines. Health and education workers are not robots.

Centralization has reached its limits, workers feel devalued, even executives become simple executives in the current system.

Imagine, in health, it takes a bill of more than 1000 articles to administer the system! In education, for greater uniformity, the Minister of Education is proposing to appoint the general directors of school service centers, who in turn will appoint the school principals. Why not a robot in every school, in every hospital, which receives its directives from ministers every morning?

We did not learn from the pandemic, when we had to wait several days for the system to react, thousands of seniors died before the system reacted.

Yvon Robert, former school board and school directorJanuary 17, 2024

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