“As a journalist, I should remain neutral. I am not. I’ve never been so angry. I learned that, just last week, a member of the premier’s office continued to repeat the government’s mantra: Dr. Liu has only run an NGO and has no knowledge of how the health ministry works. What mediocrity, what macho contempt of these small provincial bureaucrats towards one of the most competent Quebec doctors and managers, trained in the best universities. She is “consulted” by the department, and probably consulted by the new deputy minister, Daniel Desharnais, who wants to implement one of her “ideas.” Why on earth is it not the opposite? Why is she not the leader, consulting the ministry’s apparatchiks?”
Ricochet
2020-06-01