As strains in the health-care system continue to be felt across the country, the federal government has named Leigh Chapman as Canada’s chief nursing officer to be a voice for nurses at the federal level, and to provide strategic advice from a nursing perspective to Health Canada.
Chapman— a registered nurse with a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto's Faculty of Nursing – will be filling a role the Liberals vowed to reinstate earlier this year. In February, when Duclos announced the federal government would be reinstating the position scrapped in 2012, noting the role nurses played during the COVID-19 pandemic, organizations applauded the move.
Health Canada has become a joke. I don't know what their priorities really are here anymore.
We are trying to stop wasting money in healthcare. Trim the fat. Middle management. Send in a hatchet man to go over the books.
Anyone who's worked for health Canada for the past three years needs to be in prison for committing genocide. We usually lock people up who commit genocide, right? Or is there something else?
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