He is willing to put competitive salary offers on the table to attract candidates, even if it means going above standard public sector pay scales.

Depending on what was learned The press, in an exceptional initiative, Christian Dubé will speak behind closed doors on Monday to around fifty businessmen who have accepted an invitation from the Montreal Metropolitan Department of Commerce. They are executives of companies such as IBM Canada, Google Canada, Énergir, Accenture, Pharmaprix and KPMG.

Christian Dubé, himself a former vice president of Cascades, will ask them to nominate candidates from their networks to fill the seven or eight senior positions at Santé Québec, which will go live next year.

Minister Dubé will present his bill next week to create this agency, which will be responsible for coordinating the operations of the health system. From now on, the ministry will mainly focus on defining orientations.

The CEOs of the CISSSs and CIUSSSs will report directly to Santé Québec; the boards of directors of these companies are being called into question because the number of administrative levels is being reduced.

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Health Quebec has often been portrayed as moving two or three branches of the department’s organizational chart and transferring officials to an agency with an operational mandate. But as Prime Minister François Legault pointed out in an interview with The press At the beginning of the month there will be significantly more. There will be big changes in the governance of the health network – as well as in education, he emphasized. Quebec in particular wants to give itself more power in management without “centralizing everything”.

Christian Dubé echoed the Prime Minister’s message by declaring a few days ago that “the pillars of the Temple will do it shaker His bill will also focus more broadly on improving the “efficiency” of the healthcare network.

Christian Dubé will not save in front of business people, behind the scenes there are reports that the health system is inefficient. The founding of Santé Québec is intended to provide impetus.

The agency will implement the health plan presented by the minister a year ago, the results of which have so far been mixed. For now, the minister gives himself a score slightly above the pass mark and particularly welcomes the fact that more Quebecers than expected are now enrolled in a family medicine group.

Complementary and efficient

Christian Dubé wants new faces for his plan and, above all, new profiles at the top of the health liner with more than 330,000 employees. The government wanted a culture change, was the reply The press, who has gotten wind of his recruitment plans in the private sector in recent weeks.

He doesn’t want to limit himself to civil servants to fill positions at Health Quebec, we explain. We will certainly make some promotions internally and we will draw on the public administration seraglio to have people who know the health system. But to reshape the network to his liking, the minister wants to expand Santé Québec’s management to include additional people from outside, executives and managers from companies deemed efficient. Private sector “top guns”, as they say behind the scenes.

The Minister intends to make competitive salary offers. And the message, according to our information, will clearly be sent to businessmen on Monday.

We even say that we are ready to leave the current Department of Health remuneration framework.

In an interview, François Legault referred to the new agency as “Hydro-Santé”, implying that we should consider Santé Québec a similar organization. Hydro-Québec is a Crown company with a commercial calling – which of course Santé Québec will not be. It pays its executives hefty salaries in the low hundreds of thousands — more than $600,000 for its CEO Sophie Brochu, who is set to step down next month.

Quebec has not yet established a salary schedule for Santé Quebec executives. We do not pay out any amounts. Therefore, it is currently unknown how far it will go.

Dominique Savoie earns $310,000 as Assistant Secretary of Health – her post is out of the question; Your salary just got increased. As usual, doctors who become deputy ministers often earn more: Former deputy deputy minister Lucie Opatrny was entitled to more than $360,000 and is now getting almost $400,000 as CEO of McGill University Health Center (MUHC) – es will be hierarchically subordinate to Santé Québec. The other deputy ministers earn around $200,000. Several senior civil servants, not just in the health sector, have benefited from significant pay rises in recent months.

With few exceptions, career civil servants, former political staffers and executives from the health network can currently be found at the top of the department’s sprawling organizational chart.