(Gatineau) Health Minister Christian Dubé is looking for a political legacy, but his Bill 15 is “shaky,” charges Vincent Marissal of Québec Solidaire (QS).
Posted at 10:53 am.
Caroline Plante The Canadian Press
In the press scrum at the QS convention in Gatineau, Mr. Marissal suspected that Mr. Dubé was in a hurry to pass his major health care reform before he left politics.
He expects that the minister will force the passage of Bill 15 through a gag order by December 8th and that he will blame the opposition parties for this.
However, the opposition will refuse to “wear the hat,” explained Mr. Marissal. “He assembles the plane out of boat parts in the middle of the flight and doesn’t know where he’s going,” he complained.
“He is in the process of acquiring an inheritance with Santé Québec. […]but should we rush through a shaky bill to please a minister who wants to leave his legacy somewhere?
“The legacy is that emergencies are overcrowded, […] Women wait three years for a mammogram. […] This is the real legacy of the government at the moment,” he added.
The comprehensive Bill 15 would create the Santé Québec Agency, which would be responsible for coordinating network operations. The ministry would mainly focus on defining key directions.
The Santé Québec Agency would become the sole employer of the health and social services network; CISSS and CIUSSS would be integrated into it.
Because there would be a single employer, union certifications would be consolidated. We are also seeking a unified seniority list that would allow staff mobility from one region to another.
QS MP Guillaume Cliche-Rivard, who is involved in the study of Bill 15, warns that it would be risky to pass Bill 15 without having dealt with “the shovelful” of amendments tabled by the minister.
“Listen, on Friday alone we received about fifty amendments between 4 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. […] and it’s like that every day, he said. If we do this quickly with a gag, huge mistakes will occur. »
According to Mr Cliche-Rivard, of the 1,200 in the bill, between 600 and 700 articles still need to be examined. Several of these articles are concordance articles, as Mr. Dubé pointed out earlier this week.
He recalled that MPs had already spent 180 hours in the parliamentary committee.