A march to demand the resignation of the Bar will be open on Saturday

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Saturday, February 24, 2018 10:22

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Nearly 1,000 people are expected Saturday for a massive march in Montreal to demand the resignation of the minister of Health Gaétan Barrette, has informed the deputy solidaire Amir Khadir, to the origin of the gathering.

Citizens and members of the health network are expected as early as 15 pm at place Émilie-Gamelin. After a media scrum, they will then be brought in front of the montreal offices of premier Philippe Couillard to deliver a petition signed by over 50 000 people. It requires neither more nor less than the resignation of Gaétan Barrette.

“Mr. Barrette became a problem. No one is listening. There are no more person that gives him a credibility, even the prime minister away,” said the member of parliament for Mercier, Amir Khadir, in an interview with LCN, in the morning.

It is estimated that as the “minister of Health, he no longer makes the “job”. It has sufficiently damaged the health system. It is necessary to dismiss”.

Mr. Khadir, addressed the crowd prior to the walk, just as his colleague in solidarity, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois and other intervenant-e-s the health community.

A specialist physician, the member solidaire Amir Khadir is not digested by the agreement between Quebec and the medical specialists. He has also promised to deliver the cheque lump sum he will receive.

“Little clique”

Saturday, he returned to the letter sent by the president of the Fédération des médecins spécialistes du Québec (FMSQ) to its members, which criticizes in particular the member for Mercier, himself a microbiologist-infectiologist. Amir Khadir accused the Federation of being “disconnected” from its members.

“Instead of blame some doctors like me to criticize the work of the FMSQ or the media to be responsible for their bad press, I think that the FMSQ is made to ask serious questions. How the Federation does its work is inherited from the time of Gaétan Barette. There is an obsession on the income as if it was going to be happy to $ 450,000, ” he said.

“You need to get out of this logic that we need still more, he said. Most of the doctors, what they want, it is that there are resources. It is that we can have access to the operating room, it is that we have the beds to care for our patients, it is that the staff around us is not exhausted, that it has offered to the beneficiaries of our patients.”

Amir Khadir has reiterated the fact that there is a “little clique” of the Federation. “It is true. There is a small clique that controls this machine, and that the vast majority of us we have not seen the agreement. It tells us that […] it is not even signed yet, while Mr. Couillard had said that it had signed an agreement and it was required to comply with it. There, we learn in the letter of yesterday that this is not even signed, it is still in negotiation. It really is very fâchant and I think it explains why so many people have responded favorably to our petition asking for the petition of Mr. Bar.”