Launching The indomitable mammotha work that explores half a century of reforms, hopes and failures in the Quebec Health network, took place Tuesday evening at the Pantoute de Québec bookseller, in the presence of the two men who are trying to put the beast Today: Prime Minister François Legault and his Minister of Health, Christian Dubé.
Despite 50 years of promises and a budget that exceeds Paraguay’s GDP this year, the health system remains a often creaky machine. Many have tried to control it, many broke their teeth and little feel like having their money today.
In The indomitable mammothformer political advisor Pascal Mailhot and the parliamentary correspondent of Duty Marie-Michèle Sioui go up the thread of successive changes that led to the current creature. The book takes the form of a journalistic investigation and is eating a lot of interviews with the tenors who have tried to take the network in Bras-le-Corps in recent decades.
Three prime ministers and five health ministers agreed to collaborate in the work and explain the changes they have in turn tried to instill in the network.
“I think that by reading the book, we understand the perspective in which we are in front of this challenge,” said Prime Minister Legault. I have already said: this is the most important management challenge in Quebec [secteurs] public and private confused. If it was easy to find the solution, it would have been a long time that it would be resolved. »»
The Government of the CAQ promises today that “the columns of the temple will shaker »Thanks to Health Quebec, the agency led by the” top gun “Geneviève Biron. About twenty demonstrators affiliated to the CSN, however, wanted to recall that the mammoth sometimes looked like a sacred cow. For an hour, on Tuesday, they braved the rain to make the Prime Minister heard their complaints with regard to the new agency, spearhead of a privatization of the network, in their eyes.
Unprecedented access to health behind the scenes of Quebec
Fruit of an “extraordinary” alliance between a journalist and a former government apparatchik, The indomitable mammoth offers a survey full of anecdotes in the form of time travel to the network roots.
“It was important for me that there is a certain rigor so that I could preserve my journalistic objectivity,” said Marie-Michèle Sioui. “I must admit that in life, I went wrong: I fell into politics,” joked Pascal Mailhot. Today, what I realize is a little boy’s dream to be able to do something like real journalism. »»
If the work gives voice to decision -makers and decides, it also proposes to hear an echo of the field and gives voice to the “nurses and workers” who must compose, for better and for worse, with reforms. The indomitable mammoth offers a dive into the Genesis of Health Quebec thanks to an unprecedented access that the entourage of the Minister of Health has granted to the two authors.
“At first, we wondered if it was going to be theater or a stuntthis case, ”said Mr.me Sioui. It was ultimately “in all transparency” that the government has agreed to open the door to its behind the scenes, usually lined with double turn to journalists.
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“It was a beautiful risk,” said Minister Dubé, but we are very happy to have done this exercise. It highlights all the work and above all, all the dedication of our team. »»
The book allows you to meet men and women who are trying to offer Quebec an accessible health system, according to Marie-Andrée Chouinard, chief editor of the Duty and co -director of publication with Paul Cauchon. “It gives privileged access where we meet politicians, we humanize them, but where we also have access to their strategies and their vision. It gives a book that literally reads like a novel […] It has nothing to do with a flat relationship on the health network! »»
The book, already at the list of best sales in bookstores, will know its Montreal launch on May 5 at the museum’s cinema in the presence of Christian Dubé, Gaétan Barrette, Joanne Castonguay and Philippe Couillard.
