Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I'd like to address my questions to the Minister of Health and Social Services again. I'd like to just state that in listening to the workers, I just feel that there are so many issues wrapped up in this about the hospital, at the Stanton Hospital, and various issues that are coming out of that. It involves many different units, many different professions, and whatever it is that's happening there is causing an exodus of very valuable, long-term not only health care professionals but hospital staff in general. Now, I understand this is a very sensitive issue and I don't think it's to the benefit of all of us if I get all the details in the House here. What I am interested in though, and the feeling I get, is that those workers need to be able to express what is going on without fear of being reprimanded or without feeling in jeopardy of their jobs. They have gone through all the procedures. They have gone to the union, they have gone to the management, and I don't think enough is happening in that regard and it shouldn't be. The Minister, of course, has to listen to his staff and he listens to us, but how is he listening to what's happening at the ground level? I'd like to know if the Minister would be willing to then ask the deputy minister and who's sending that, whatever they do, that they must prove or they must have a mechanism there that they're talking to the front-line workers. I want to know, I want to get assurance from him that he will make sure that he'll get a direct report from the front-line workers at the hospital, every one of them, every group anyway. Thank you.
Sandy Lee on Question 124-15(5): Dialogue With Employees Of The Stanton Territorial Hospital
In the Legislative Assembly on October 18th, 2006. See this statement in context.
Question 124-15(5): Dialogue With Employees Of The Stanton Territorial Hospital
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