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Friday, September 2, 2011

Liberals Question Whether Elected Health Boards Will Have Any Clout

Former Deputy Premier Donald Arsenault is wondering whether revamped health authorities with half the members elected will have any clout or just be there as window dressing.

Arsenault is one of two Liberals who are on the Legislative Committee that's holding public hearings on electing health board members.

He tells CHSJ News the intent is to have the C-E-O report directly to the Health Minister so does that mean he or she will be under the hobnail boot of government.

The other Liberal on the committee, M-L-A Bill Fraser says the Lord Government fired the C-E-O of the Regional Health Authority in Miramichi back in 2004 when he displayed some spine and opposed cuts to healthcare publicly.