Christian Dubé has the courage to proclaim loud and clear that the pool of skills of future leaders of Santé Québec must be broadened.
He is right to seek the best, across all sectors, to meet this enormous challenge.
It is good to want to improve the salary conditions in particular to attract “Top Gun” from the private sector.
We need the best minds, the best experts and the most experienced. This is not a disavowal of the public service, or of those who already work there. On the contrary, it is a matter of adding to them experienced managers who do not yet have the bad habit of a civil service sclerotic by bureaucracy, immobile and so cautious in the face of any change whatsoever.
Christian Dubé wants to break a mould. That of health managers who are too comfortable, never responsible, who only surf the waves of public dissatisfaction. The Minister of Health will have to be persistent and tenacious in this approach, because there will be resistance, and sabotage too.
The unions, whether nurses or doctors, will rip their shirts off and accuse the minister of wanting to quietly privatize health care and insult those who hold our network at arm’s length. They will try to put us to sleep by telling us that the government is unfair since it demonstrates flexibility and openness in the working conditions of managers by skipping those of poor workers.
It is not so. The unions will only have themselves to blame by constantly erecting themselves as obstacles to change, to the evolution of practices, to flexibility and to room for manoeuvre. They have demonstrated many times, especially during the pandemic, that they don’t care about solutions. What they want is money now and right away.
I repeat, Christian Dubé has courage. He shakes the columns of the temple and resists the pressures. We can feel it, he wants things to change and he is ready to do anything to do so, in particular to commit the political capital he has enjoyed since the pandemic. Come to think of it, he may be our best “Top Gun”.
