Quebec Solidaire (QS) critic Vincent Marissal mentioned Health Minister Christian Dubé is on the lookout for a political legacy, however that his Bill 15 is “unethical.”

In a press scrum on the QS conference in Gatineau, Marissal suspected Dubé of being in a rush to cross his main well being reform earlier than leaving politics.

He anticipates that the minister will drive Bill 15 by way of a gag order between now and Dec. 8 and that he’ll make the opposition events bear the brunt of it.

But the opposition will refuse to “take the blame,” mentioned Marissal.

“He’s building the plane in mid-flight with boat parts and he doesn’t know where he’s going,” he mentioned. “He is buying round for a legacy with Santé Québec, (…) however ought to we rush by way of a flawed invoice to please a minister who desires to depart his legacy someplace?

“The legacy is that emergency departments are overflowing, (…) women are waiting three years to have a mammogram (…) That’s the real legacy of the government at the moment.”

The voluminous Bill 15 would create the Santé Québec company, which might be answerable for coordinating the community’s operations. The ministry, for its half, would focus primarily on defining broad coverage instructions.

Santé Québec would turn out to be the one employer for the well being and social providers community, and the CISSS and CIUSSS can be built-in into it.

Because there can be a single employer, union certifications can be merged. There would even be a single seniority checklist, permitting workers to maneuver from one area to a different.

QS MNA Guillaume Cliche-Rivard, who’s collaborating within the research of Bill 15, warns that it might be dangerous to cross Bill 15 with out having handled “the shovelful” of amendments tabled by the minister.

“Listen, just on Friday, at 4 p.m.-4:30 p.m. we received around 50 amendments, (…) and it’s like that every day,” he mentioned. “If we rush this through with a gag order, there are going to be huge mistakes.”

According to Cliche-Rivard, between 600 and 700 of the 1,200 clauses within the invoice stay to be studied. Several of those clauses are concordance clauses, as Dubé identified earlier this week.

He mentioned that the MNAs had already spent 180 hours in parliamentary committee.

This report by The Canadian Press was first printed in French on Nov. 26, 2023.