Old people died in indignity in CHSLDs in Quebec. Two years later, on the eve of a general election, in the last weeks of the parliamentary session, we would have hoped that the questions to the government from the opposition parties would focus on new risk management practices in CHSLDs, crisis communication policies, staff training, availability of equipment and staff, transfer policies between hospitals and CHSLDs, availability of places. We would have hoped to read reports from our most prestigious journalists informing us of the realities on the ground in relation to the implementation of the necessary changes.
Old people, including myself, are entitled to go to the polls with the assurance that the problems in our CHSLDs are a nightmare of the past. Instead of a critical and rigorous debate on these issues, we were treated to a search for the culprits, the opposition parties using the corpses of the old as a lifeline for their political future in danger. The voters of Marie-Victorin sounded the call to order by punishing more heavily the political parties which held the most indecent speeches.
To see in video