New boss Lesley Hill now promises “transparency” to the DPJ, shaken by multiple controversies, and she asks employees to denounce all intolerable situations.
• Also read: Lesley Hill will become the new boss of the DPJ
Freshly appointed to replace Catherine Lemay, who resigned following the sex scandal that occurred at the Cité-des-Prairies youth rehabilitation center, the new national director of the DPJ will send a directive to encourage people to speak out and she is committed to protecting whistleblowers.
“I have confidence in you, stakeholders and managers, but I have confidence that you will denounce what is intolerable,” she said at a press conference, alongside Minister Lionel Carmant.
Lesley Hill is one of the authors of the Laurent Commission report, established following the tragic death of the little girl from Granby in 2019.
If she accepted this new mandate given by the government, it is because of the scale of the scandals currently affecting the DPJ across Quebec. “I fell out of my chair like you. “That’s why I’m here,” she told reporters.
“We’re going to have to put a big light in our house, in all the wardrobes, in all the rooms of the house, and we risk finding cobwebs, and we’re going to have to clean them and do what we can. necessary to truly be the exemplary institution that children have the right to have in Quebec.”
Lesley Hill wants to be the “watchdog” of Quebec’s children. And she won’t hold her tongue in her pocket. “I have nothing to lose,” says the woman who is coming out of retirement to take over as national director of the DPJ.
“It’s a bit courageous of the government to put a girl like me in a position like that, because I’m obviously going to be vocal,” she added. I will not hesitate to say what I have to say,” she added.
This is an appointment which, however, did not prevent liberals and solidarity activists from calling for the head of the minister responsible for Social Services. According to the opposition, trust is broken and Lionel Carmant is no longer “the man for the job”.
Watch his full press briefing in the video above.
