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By Robert Frank<\/b>
\nwww.thesuburban.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Worried constituents lit up the phone lines at Chomedey MNA Guy Ouellette\u2019s office last week.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany Laval residents go to Montreal for health care service,\u201d he told The Suburban<\/i> in an interview. \u201cWe received calls advising us that they had been told that they will henceforth have to get those services in Laval because, in the near future, it won\u2019t be possible for them to obtain those services at hospitals in Montreal.\u201d<\/p>\n

As reported in the accompanying article, those hospitals are desperate to shed patients because Quebec Health Minister R\u00e9jean H\u00e9bert has told them that he will be cutting their budgets to redistribute the funds to outlying regions, starting April 1. <\/p>\n

Ouellette noted that controversy over the move last week prompted H\u00e9bert to parachute in Patricia Gauthier to take over as CEO of Montreal\u2019s regional health care authority, known as ASSS Montreal.<\/p>\n

The departure came as a surprise because Gauthier\u2019s predecessor, Danielle McCann, still had two years left in her four-year appointment. <\/p>\n

Ouellette believes that partisan politics motivated H\u00e9bert to oust McCann, because the Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois is spoiling for an election. <\/p>\n

\u201cHow can the Parti qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois<\/i> justify doing so?\u201d he asked rhetorically. \u201cGauthier\u2019s previous job was as head of the Centre hospitalier de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de Sherbrooke<\/i>\u2014in H\u00e9bert\u2019s riding.\u201d <\/p>\n

Last Thursday, ASSS Montreal abruptly cancelled an interview with The Suburban<\/i> to discuss how regionalization plan will be implemented. Health care officials initially wanted to stall until Feb. 20\u2014the date the Quebec government will table a budget\u2014to discuss details. They now say that they are prepared to do so Feb. 26\u2014a date that many observers anticipate a provincial election will be called.<\/p>\n

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