(Québec) Éric Duhaime s’oppose à toute mesure sanitaire coercitive, une position qui n’est pas appuyée par le Dr Karim Elayoubi, candidat du Parti conservateur du Québec et porte-parole de son comité santé.
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« Je pense qu’il aurait fallu protéger les plus vulnérables et laisser les gens davantage libres et que le gouvernement a un rôle d’informer la population, mais pas d’utiliser des mesures coercitives », a indiqué le chef du PCQ Éric Duhaime en point de presse jeudi.
Il présentait les candidatures des médecins Karim Elayoubi et Roy Eappen. Questionné par les journalistes, Karim Elayoubi a affirmé qu’il n’avait pas fait cette recommandation à M. Duhaime.
Sa position est plus nuancée. « Ça prend des mesures pour faire en sorte de protéger le système hospitalier, mais également, plus la pandémie avance, il faut considérer les dommages collatéraux. Mais je n’ai pas une idée complètement claire par rapport à ça », a-t-il dit.
Il aurait préféré plus de transparence, et des débats d’experts en commission parlementaire, mais croit que la « meilleure décision » est de « supporter le système hospitalier [avec] effective measures, no superfluous measures”, while taking into account “the potential collateral damage”.
On January 19, Éric Duhaime went out to ask for the lifting of sanitary measures. He denounced the CAQ, a government “which is not based on science”, and which makes “strictly political decisions”. He then claimed to be advised by doctors, including Dr.r Elayoubi. Today, he explains that these experts have “put the figures, the comparables into context”. “We looked at what was being done elsewhere, and I took a political position. When I came out, I didn’t come out saying I was giving scientific advice, I said I was giving a political position, that’s what I do as a politician,” he explained.
Mr. Duhaime also defended his candidate Roy Eappen, who is against abortion. “People are entitled to their personal opinion. That being said, in the public space, we are clearly with a party that opposes regulations against abortion,” he explained.
Mr. Eappen affirms for his part that he is against abortion, but that he does not believe “that we should legislate on the question. “There are a lot of things that I don’t approve of, but I don’t want to legislate on this. Rather, you have to talk to people to make them change their opinion,” he said.
Mr. Duhaime presented his major health orientations. In particular, he wants to increase medical admission quotas and allow doctors to work in both the private and public sectors. It also plans to entrust the management of hospitals to the private sector, without calling into question the universality of health care.