The creation of a new health structure will allow Minister Christian Dubé to relieve himself of responsibility. At least that’s what the Liberals are anticipating, meeting this week in a pre-sessional caucus in Lac-Beauport, north of Quebec.
They do not welcome the idea of a bill creating Santé Québec, an entity separate from the ministry which would be responsible for coordinating the activities of the network.
Mr. Dubé argued in an interview with the To have to that such an agency will make it possible to avoid tragedies like the one experienced by Andrée Simard. The widow of former Prime Minister Robert Bourassa was deprived of palliative care for three days before her death.
According to Liberal health critic André Fortin, it is “incredibly cynical” to claim that these situations would no longer occur if there was “an agency CEO”.
“It’s a civil servant solution that relieves the minister of his responsibilities,” he denounced in a press scrum on Wednesday.
“I can’t believe that the health solution at the moment is to put one more box in the organization chart of the Ministry of Health. The solution is to recruit more people,” he added.
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