With Bill 15, which centralizes the health and social services network under a new Crown corporation — Santé Québec — the concern is that it will eliminate the involvement of community organizations such as local hospital boards and other entities where minority communities, families, patients and charitable foundations have input. There are also fears about access to English-language services being denied by this bureaucracy centralized in Quebec City. As a former hospital foundation board member, this alone should be enough for Girard to be vocal on this issue.
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