Called “incompetent” by the Liberals, Minister Marguerite Blais feels hurt by the jeers and the harsh attacks she is the subject of regarding her responsibility for the tragedy at CHSLD Herron.
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“I think MPs should be a little more civilized in the House. There are words that touch us, we are human beings. Being called all sorts of things…and not just by MPs…When you read the papers, I got a lot of jeers, I’m a human being and that’s hurtful,” dropped Thursday. the Minister responsible for Seniors, very moved, at the end of a particularly stormy question period in the National Assembly.
Hounded by the opposition parties, Marguerite Blais defended her decisions surrounding the tragedy at the CHSLD Herron, where, at the height of the first wave of the pandemic, many vulnerable elderly people lost their lives in execrable conditions. Earlier this week, the Liberal Party even called for his resignation.
According to her, the opposition parties are looking for a culprit at all costs. “We are human beings and we all work to improve the living conditions of our citizens. Honestly, I’m going to be 72, if I honestly thought I was wrong, would I get bombarded like this?
During the parliamentary contest, the Liberals accused the minister of having done nothing in the days following the receipt of emergency emails about the situation at CHSLD Herron.
“The Minister’s responsibility was both to inform the crisis unit, it was to take action and, also, it was above all to check what was going to happen. What did the minister do on March 30, March 31, March 1er April, in this crisis unit? What did she do? How could she have been so incompetent? even launched his former Liberal colleague Pierre Arcand.
Marguerite Blais wonders if it is the fall election campaign that is raising the tone in Parliament. She recalls that she was a minister in the previous Liberal government for several years. “I worked with these people, why did they keep me for all these years if I was so incompetent?”
“That hurts me!”
The Prime Minister is also not insensitive to the reproaches of the opposition parties, whether they are directed at his ministers or at himself. François Legault assures that he has no intention of “washing his hands” of this tragedy and that he takes his share of responsibility.
“Me, it hurts me to hear that!” According to him, these kinds of attacks will not help attract people to politics.
He points out that the lack of employees was glaring even before the pandemic. “We tried to do the best we could in the face of a huge crisis. There was not just a problem in a private CHSLD, ”he insisted, on the sidelines of an announcement in Sainte-Claire in the Chaudières-Appalaches region.