There is certainly an understanding from my point that the Minister has a very difficult portfolio and one with a lot of challenges. There is no question about that, I think, by any of the Members here just to address his comments. But the area that I am concerned about is just the area the Minister referred to in his latter part of his comments. There has been identification of problems out there. What I am concerned about is, is the Minister creating this forum to rationalize the decisions that need to be made and in other words, is he asking the forum to make these decisions for him, rather than him sitting here saying yes, these are the problems and this is what we can do about it. We are going out to the public again, saying, okay, tell us what all the problems are, but how many of those do we already know about? Really, the decisions need to be made by Ministers. Thank you.
Jake Ootes on Question 147-13(7): Material For Consideration By Minister's Forum On Health And Social Services
In the Legislative Assembly on April 28th, 1999. See this statement in context.
Supplementary To Question 147-13(7): Material For Consideration By Minister's Forum On Health And Social Services
Question 147-13(7): Material For Consideration By Minister's Forum On Health And Social Services
Item 6: Oral Questions
April 27th, 1999
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