Thank you, Madam Chair. I’m pleased to see that the French language services. We finally have allocations in many of our departments. It’s good to see that we’re living up to our legal obligation in Canada. That said, I know through a lot of reporting and a lot of feedback we’ve received over the years where we talk about where our policies fail, where our processes don’t meet the expectations of our clients, barriers to patients, especially accessing services quickly and efficiently and people who fall through the cracks. These were terminologies that were very widespread in a lot of system reviews we had in the Department of Health. The one thing that I feel we may have not covered in trying to mitigate these cracks in our process is the issue of having proper first-language services throughout all our communities. This has been brought up by many Members, having proper translation in all our official languages where clients come into our facilities who need that extra help to understand what their ailments are and get that proper communication. We know there are barriers. That is undisputable. The question is: What is this department planning to do this year to help move that file forward? Thank you.
Daryl Dolynny on Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on February 18th, 2015. See this statement in context.
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
February 17th, 2015
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