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Quietly Adopted Regulation Could Hurt Quality of Health Care for English-speaking Quebecers

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Despite strong objections from the English-speaking community that included a 4,500-name petition tabled in the National Assembly, the Quebec government has eviscerated the Provincial Committee for the Provision of Health Services and Social Services in the English Language. The government is now recruiting replacement members.

“Two days before the petition was tabled in the National Assembly on Dec. 10 – in the middle of a public health emergency during which the population is fully fixated on COVID-19 – the government stealthily enacted a new regulation governing the provincial committee,” says Marlene Jennings, president of the Quebec Community Groups Network.

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Allison Hanes: QCGN warns of new threat to English health services

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The Quebec Community Groups Network is warning of a new threat to health and social services in English in the province.

Tools for Planning Ahead

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Educaloi will present an overview of some important legal tools to make life easier for your loved ones down the road.

This workshop will cover the basics of :

  • Power of attorney
  • Protection mandates
  • Advance medical directives
  • Wills

This workshop is presented in collaboration with the Atwater Library Financial Literacy Program. It is open to anyone interested in the topic and Atwater Library membership is not required.

It may be of particular interest to persons 50 and older, but adults of all ages should benefit from this information.

More information can be found here

Press Release: Ministers Gaétan Barrette and Kathleen Weil present new members of the Provincial Committee for the Provision of Health and Social Services in the English Language (in French only)

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Les ministres Gaétan Barrette et Kathleen Weil présentent les nouveaux membres du Comité provincial pour la prestation des services de santé et des services sociaux en langue anglaise

Québec, le 14 août 2018

Le ministre de la Santé et des Services sociaux, monsieur Gaétan Barrette, ainsi que la ministre responsable de l’Accès à l’information et de la Réforme des institutions démocratiques et ministre responsable des Relations avec les Québécois d’expression anglaise, madame Kathleen Weil, ont annoncé aujourd’hui la composition du nouveau Comité provincial pour la prestation des services de santé et des services sociaux en langue anglaise.

Représentant la population d’expression anglaise de l’ensemble du Québec, les personnes suivantes auront la responsabilité de formuler des avis sur la prestation et la qualité des services offerts en langue anglaise, de même que sur les programmes d’accès à ces services :

  • Madame Sara Saber-Freedman;
  • Madame Ella Amir;
  • Monsieur Terry Kaufman;
  • Monsieur David Morris;
  • Madame Bonnie Jean Mitchell;
  • Monsieur Donald Warnholtz;
  • Madame Sheilagh Murphy;
  • Madame Jennifer Hobbs Robert;
  • Madame Eileen Schofield;
  • Madame Cathy Brown;
  • Madame Carolynn Roberts.

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Quebec to create committee overseeing anglos’ access to health services

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It’s good to have screaming rights, but it’s better to have suing rights, lawyer Eric Maldoff joked following an announcement Monday that the government will create an official English-language committee responsible for maintaining access to health and social services.

Quebec Health Minister Gaétan Barrette and Kathleen Weil, the minister responsible for relations with English-speaking Quebecers, announced new regulations creating a provincial access committee.

Barrette said problems for English speakers in health care existed long before he enacted Bill 10, which abolished local boards at various institutions.

“I’m announcing a solution to a problem that already existed,” he said. “I understood that the community wanted to have a voice in one, clearly established way, through a provincial committee on access.”

How much money will be set aside for the committee will be made public at a later date, Barrette said.

Maldoff, who heads the Quebec Community Groups Network health and social services committee, praised Barrette for following through on a commitment.

Maldoff said the rights of English speakers cannot depend on the good will of the government.

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Quebec adopts new regulation to improve access to healthcare in English

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Quebec’s health minister was at the Lakeshore General Hospital on Monday to unveil a new regulation that aims to improve access to healthcare for the province’s English-speaking minority.

The regulation creating a provincial access committee is the product of a three-year collaboration between English-language rights advocates and the health minister.

“At the end of the day, the only rights you ultimately have is if it’s written in an access plan you can sue on it because it’s a real right,” lawyer Eric Madoff said.

Maldoff heads the Quebec Community Groups Network (QCGN) Health and Social Services Committee, one of the two groups who helped draft the new regulation.

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CTV News Interview with Eric Maldoff, QCGN Health and Social Services Committee Chair

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QCGN Health and Social Services Committee Chair, Eric Maldoff, comments on newly revamped regulations that will ensure English-speaking Quebecers have a voice in the accessibility and quality of health and social services in their own language. The regulation was announced by Health Minister Gaétan Barrette, and Kathleen Weil, the Minister Responsible for Relations with English-speaking Quebecers on Monday.

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Improving access to health care for anglophones

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Quebec Health Minister Gaétan Barrette has announced plans to adopt new regulation in the hopes of improving access to health care services for English-speaking Quebecers.

Global’s Anne Leclair reports.

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Government Sets Up Advisory Group to Assess Healthcare Needs for Quebec Anglos

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Quebec’s English-speaking communities are one step closer to having more of a say on access to healthcare services in English.

The Quebec government announced that it’s greenlighted the creation of a revamped provincial advisory committee that will monitor healthcare services in English and provide recommendations on how what’s needed and where.

The revised committee was held up by the merger nearly three years ago of health care agencies overseeing services in different regions in the province.

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Anglos promised more of a voice for access to health and social services

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English-speaking Quebecers will now have more of a voice when it comes to health and social services for the Anglophone community.

Quebec’s health minister announced a new regulation on Monday aimed at addressing concerns that were raised three years ago with the introduction of Bill 10.

The 2015 bill massively reorganized Quebec’s healthcare and social services system, sparking an outcry from the English-speaking community that they would lose a voice due to the elimination of health boards and patients’ committees.

On Monday, several prominent English-rights advocates said they’ve been working closely with Health Minister Gaetan Barrette to address those concerns.

The newly announced regulation will create both a provincial access committee and several regional committees.

“What’s changed here is the provincial advisory committee is now a committee of our community,” said Eric Maldoff, head of the health and social services committee of the Quebec Community Groups Network.

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