The LIEbranos are at again Surprise Surprise Surprise N'esy Pas? Medavie contract still secret, despite Liberal vow of quick release

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/medavie-deal-contracts-1.4470434

Medavie contract still secret, despite Liberal vow of quick release

Province says integrity commissioner will review contracts to see if anything needs to be kept secret

By Jacques Poitras, CBC News Posted: Jan 02, 2018 6:50 PM AT

Health Minister Benoît Bourque promised repeatedly that the agreements between Medavie and the province for the takeover of the extramural program and tele-care would be released promptly after they were signed. (CBC) 

The Brian Gallant government has added a New Year's caveat to a key promise it made in 2017.

After vowing to release the extramural contracts with Medavie promptly after they were signed, the province now says it wants Integrity Commissioner Alexandre Deschênes to review whether anything needs to be blacked out.

"The Department of Health has requested comments from the Commissioner's office in advance of the release with respect to redactions that would be required under the [Right to Information] Act," spokesperson Paul Bradley said in an email statement.

Bradley said Deschênes was being consulted "to ensure the highest level of transparency."

That's the first time the government has mentioned another step in the process of releasing the contracts.

The agreements will turn over management of the extramural program to Medavie, a private, not-for-profit company based in Moncton.

Promised to release contract immediately 

During weeks of debate over the outsourcing, Health Minister Benoît Bourque promised repeatedly that the agreements would be released promptly after they were signed.

"The way we're going to do it is, once the contract is signed, we will publish it online within the website of the department," Bourque said in a CBC political panel recorded on Nov. 16.

In December, accused of not being open about the contract's provisions, Bourque told reporters, "My notion of transparency is the fact that it will be there for all New Brunswickers to see."

The government announced Dec. 31 that the contracts, three in all, had been signed. It did not say when the signing took place.

Lack of details 'shocking' 

 

Progressive Conservative MLA Brian Macdonald calls the delay in releasing the contracts 'shocking.' (Pat Richard/CBC)

Progressive Conservative MLA Brian Macdonald called it "shocking" that the government is now hedging on its promise to release the contracts.

"Why else would they have to go to the commissioner to have that determined? It's a government contract," Macdonald said.

"They actually fooled me this time. They were very clear. They said as soon as the deal is signed, we'll get the details. Well, the deal has been signed, and we don't have the details."

Macdonald said the delay continues a trend that the Progressive Conservatives saw when they filed a right-to-information request to Ambulance New Brunswick in 2017 on how the organization deploys ambulances.

The request was rejected, with Ambulance New Brunswick calling the information "intellectual property."

The ambulance service is also run by Medavie, a Moncton-based not-for-profit private company. Medavie is folding the service into a new entity that will integrate ambulance, extramural and telecare services.

The Liberal government says the change is needed so that the services can be run more efficiently for a provincial population that is getting older.

But Macdonald says the outsourcing will prevent the public from knowing how the services are run.
"These things that the people of New Brunswick have paid for, and are paying for, have become the intellectual property of Medavie, a third-party private entity," Macdonald said.

"That to me is unacceptable, and we can't get a view into it, because the law is set up to protect that intellectual property that we've now effectively transferred out of our own hands."

Key info already revealed: Health Minister  

Bourque said in mid-December that he had already revealed most of the key details of the agreements, including five performance targets Medavie must hit to win financial bonuses.

They include reducing emergency-room visits by extramural patients by 15 per cent and increasing visits to the patients by extramural nurses by 15 per cent.

Meanwhile, lawyers are preparing to return to court next week to continue a legal battle over the Medavie contract.

Francophone lobby group Égalité Santé en français wants a judicial review of the outsourcing.

The group argues Bourque doesn't have the legal power to privatize management of the extramural service and that the move jeopardizes the equality of health services between the English and French communities.

It lost its bid for a temporary injunction last week to block the signing of the contracts pending the Jan. 9 hearing.

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---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
 Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 17:15:27 -0400
Subject: Now Dr Hubert Dupuis and his lawyers are gonna try a broader constitutional
challenge to stop Premeir Gallant"s sneaky deal with Bernie Lord and the Boyz???
To: gilles.lanteigne@vitalitenb.ca, info@vitalitenb.ca, jean-rene.noel@vitalitenb.ca, hubert.dupuis7@gmail.com, jacques.verge@egalitesante.com, wjl65@rogers.com,
louloublanchard@hotmail.com, "David.Coon" <David.Coon@gnb.ca>,
"dominic.leblanc" <dominic.leblanc@nb.aibn.com>, "victor.boudreau"
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bernard.lord@medavie.bluecross.ca, "Frank.McKenna" <Frank.McKenna@td.com>, "francis.scarpaleggia" <francis.scarpaleggia@parl.gc.ca>, leader <leader@greenparty.ca>
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Nobody should deny that Integrity Commissioner Alexandre Deschênes
and everybody and his dog knows that if the French men were sincere
all they had to do to stop that malicious nonsense with a far from
"Non Profit" company was to simply say my name and mention my lawsuit
against the Crown N'esy Pas David Coon and Dominic Cardy?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nb-medavie-no-profit-takeover-1.4290898

Medavie won't profit from takeover, CEO says
Bernard Lord says no one will be reaping any money from running programs
By Jacques Poitras, Posted: Sep 15, 2017 6:30 AM AT

"I've been in some of these battles before," Lord said, "and some of
the statements are just wrong."

YEA RIGHT JUST LIKE WHEN YOU HAD ME ILLEGALLY BARRED FROM
PARLIAMENTARY PROPERTIES EH BERNIE BABY?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/medavie-extramural-new-brunswick-egalite-sante-constitution-1.4472732

Francophone group shifts strategy in fight to keep extramural away from Medavie
Égalité Santé en français drops judicial review of Medavie contract,
pursues broader constitutional challenge
By Jacques Poitras, CBC News Posted: Jan 04, 2018 11:39 AM AT

"Meanwhile, Integrity Commissioner Alexandre Deschênes said Thursday
he is reviewing "proposed redactions" to the three contracts the
province signed with Medavie on Dec. 31."

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/egalite-sante-lawsuit-government-vitalite-1.4160946

Francophone lobby group sues province over Vitalité Health's independence
Citing Charter of Rights, Égalité Santé en français argues for 'full
and complete' control of health network
CBC News Posted: Jun 14, 2017 6:50 PM AT

"The Department of Health and Vitalité's CEO Gilles Lanteigne both say
they won't comment on the lawsuit because it's heading to court."

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/bernard-lord-extramural-program-medavie-1.4289106


Medavie CEO defends takeover of extramural management
Former premier Bernard Lord says company will be more innovative in
serving aging population
CBC News Posted: Sep 14, 2017 10:56 AM AT

"Katherine d'Entremont, New Brunswick's commissioner of official
languages also criticized the Liberal government for putting
extramural into Medavie's hands, expressing concern about patients
getting service in the language of their choice.

Vitalité Health Network president and CEO Gilles Lanteigne said the
change "dismantles" a service that has been highly appreciated by
patients and communities.

Meanwhile, representatives of L'association francophone des aînés du
Nouveau-Brunswick and the Coalition for Seniors and Nursing Home
Residents' Rights met with Health Department officials earlier this
week to express their concerns about the Medavie deal and promised to
fight it."

http://www.vitalitenb.ca/en/news/appointment-new-president-and-ceo-vitalite-health-network

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>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
> Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 09:32:09 -0400
> Subject: Attn Integrity Commissioner Alexandre Deschênes, Q.C.,
> To: coi@gnb.ca
> Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>
> Good Day Sir
>
> After I heard you speak on CBC I called your office again and managed
> to speak to one of your staff for the first time
>
> Please find attached the documents I promised to send to the lady who
> answered the phone this morning. Please notice that not after the Sgt
> at Arms took the documents destined to your office his pal Tanker
> Malley barred me in writing with an "English" only document.
>
> These are the hearings and the dockets in Federal Court that I
> suggested that you study closely.
>
> This is the docket in Federal Court
>
> http://cas-cdc-www02.cas-satj.gc.ca/IndexingQueries/infp_RE_info_e.php?court_no=T-1557-15&select_court=T
>
> These are digital recordings of  the last three hearings
>
> Dec 14th https://archive.org/details/BahHumbug
>
> January 11th, 2016 https://archive.org/details/Jan11th2015
>
> April 3rd, 2017
>
> https://archive.org/details/April32017JusticeLeblancHearing
>
>
> This is the docket in the Federal Court of Appeal
>
> http://cas-cdc-www02.cas-satj.gc.ca/IndexingQueries/infp_RE_info_e.php?court_no=A-48-16&select_court=All
>
>
> The only hearing thus far
>
> May 24th, 2017
>
> https://archive.org/details/May24thHoedown
>
>
> This Judge understnds the meaning of the word Integrity
>
> Date: 20151223
>
> Docket: T-1557-15
>
> Fredericton, New Brunswick, December 23, 2015
>
> PRESENT:        The Honourable Mr. Justice Bell
>
> BETWEEN:
>
> DAVID RAYMOND AMOS
>
> Plaintiff
>
> and
>
> HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
>
> Defendant
>
> ORDER
>
> (Delivered orally from the Bench in Fredericton, New Brunswick, on
> December 14, 2015)
>
> The Plaintiff seeks an appeal de novo, by way of motion pursuant to
> the Federal Courts Rules (SOR/98-106), from an Order made on November
> 12, 2015, in which Prothonotary Morneau struck the Statement of Claim
> in its entirety.
>
> At the outset of the hearing, the Plaintiff brought to my attention a
> letter dated September 10, 2004, which he sent to me, in my then
> capacity as Past President of the New Brunswick Branch of the Canadian
> Bar Association, and the then President of the Branch, Kathleen Quigg,
> (now a Justice of the New Brunswick Court of Appeal).  In that letter
> he stated:
>
> As for your past President, Mr. Bell, may I suggest that you check the
> work of Frank McKenna before I sue your entire law firm including you.
> You are your brother’s keeper.
>
> Frank McKenna is the former Premier of New Brunswick and a former
> colleague of mine at the law firm of McInnes Cooper. In addition to
> expressing an intention to sue me, the Plaintiff refers to a number of
> people in his Motion Record who he appears to contend may be witnesses
> or potential parties to be added. Those individuals who are known to
> me personally, include, but are not limited to the former Prime
> Minister of Canada, The Right Honourable Stephen Harper; former
> Attorney General of Canada and now a Justice of the Manitoba Court of
> Queen’s Bench, Vic Toews; former member of Parliament Rob Moore;
> former Director of Policing Services, the late Grant Garneau; former
> Chief of the Fredericton Police Force, Barry McKnight; former Staff
> Sergeant Danny Copp; my former colleagues on the New Brunswick Court
> of Appeal, Justices Bradley V. Green and Kathleen Quigg, and, retired
> Assistant Commissioner Wayne Lang of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
>
> In the circumstances, given the threat in 2004 to sue me in my
> personal capacity and my past and present relationship with many
> potential witnesses and/or potential parties to the litigation, I am
> of the view there would be a reasonable apprehension of bias should I
> hear this motion. See Justice de Grandpré’s dissenting judgment in
> Committee for Justice and Liberty et al v National Energy Board et al,
> [1978] 1 SCR 369 at p 394 for the applicable test regarding
> allegations of bias. In the circumstances, although neither party has
> requested I recuse myself, I consider it appropriate that I do so.
>
>
> AS A RESULT OF MY RECUSAL, THIS COURT ORDERS that the Administrator of
> the Court schedule another date for the hearing of the motion.  There
> is no order as to costs.
>
> “B. Richard Bell”
> Judge
>
>
> Below after the CBC article about your concerns (I made one comment
> already) you will find the text of just two of many emails I had sent
> to your office over the years since I first visited it in 2006.
>
>  I noticed that on July 30, 2009, he was appointed to the  the Court
> Martial Appeal Court of Canada  Perhaps you should scroll to the
> bottom of this email ASAP and read the entire Paragraph 83  of my
> lawsuit now before the Federal Court of Canada?
>
> "FYI This is the text of the lawsuit that should interest Trudeau the most
>
>
> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: justin.trudeau.a1@parl.gc.ca
> Date: Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 8:18 PM
> Subject: Réponse automatique : RE My complaint against the CROWN in
> Federal Court Attn David Hansen and Peter MacKay If you planning to
> submit a motion for a publication ban on my complaint trust that you
> dudes are way past too late
> To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>
> Veuillez noter que j'ai changé de courriel. Vous pouvez me rejoindre à
> lalanthier@hotmail.com
>
> Pour rejoindre le bureau de M. Trudeau veuillez envoyer un courriel à
> tommy.desfosses@parl.gc.ca
>
> Please note that I changed email address, you can reach me at
> lalanthier@hotmail.com
>
> To reach the office of Mr. Trudeau please send an email to
> tommy.desfosses@parl.gc.ca
>
> Thank you,
>
> Merci ,
>
>
> http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.ca/2015/09/v-behaviorurldefaultvmlo.html
>
>
> 83.  The Plaintiff states that now that Canada is involved in more war
> in Iraq again it did not serve Canadian interests and reputation to
> allow Barry Winters to publish the following words three times over
> five years after he began his bragging:
>
> January 13, 2015
> This Is Just AS Relevant Now As When I wrote It During The Debate
>
> December 8, 2014
> Why Canada Stood Tall!
>
> Friday, October 3, 2014
> Little David Amos’ “True History Of War” Canadian Airstrikes And
> Stupid Justin Trudeau
>
> Canada’s and Canadians free ride is over. Canada can no longer hide
> behind Amerka’s and NATO’s skirts.
>
> When I was still in Canadian Forces then Prime Minister Jean Chretien
> actually committed the Canadian Army to deploy in the second campaign
> in Iraq, the Coalition of the Willing. This was against or contrary to
> the wisdom or advice of those of us Canadian officers that were
> involved in the initial planning phases of that operation. There were
> significant concern in our planning cell, and NDHQ about of the dearth
> of concern for operational guidance, direction, and forces for
> operations after the initial occupation of Iraq. At the “last minute”
> Prime Minister Chretien and the Liberal government changed its mind.
> The Canadian government told our amerkan cousins that we would not
> deploy combat troops for the Iraq campaign, but would deploy a
> Canadian Battle Group to Afghanistan, enabling our amerkan cousins to
> redeploy troops from there to Iraq. The PMO’s thinking that it was
> less costly to deploy Canadian Forces to Afghanistan than Iraq. But
> alas no one seems to remind the Liberals of Prime Minister Chretien’s
> then grossly incorrect assumption. Notwithstanding Jean Chretien’s
> incompetence and stupidity, the Canadian Army was heroic,
> professional, punched well above it’s weight, and the PPCLI Battle
> Group, is credited with “saving Afghanistan” during the Panjway
> campaign of 2006.
>
> What Justin Trudeau and the Liberals don’t tell you now, is that then
> Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chretien committed, and deployed the
> Canadian army to Canada’s longest “war” without the advice, consent,
> support, or vote of the Canadian Parliament.
>
> What David Amos and the rest of the ignorant, uneducated, and babbling
> chattering classes are too addled to understand is the deployment of
> less than 75 special operations troops, and what is known by planners
> as a “six pac cell” of fighter aircraft is NOT the same as a
> deployment of a Battle Group, nor a “war” make.
>
> The Canadian Government or The Crown unlike our amerkan cousins have
> the “constitutional authority” to commit the Canadian nation to war.
> That has been recently clearly articulated to the Canadian public by
> constitutional scholar Phillippe Legasse. What Parliament can do is
> remove “confidence” in The Crown’s Government in a “vote of
> non-confidence.” That could not happen to the Chretien Government
> regarding deployment to Afghanistan, and it won’t happen in this
> instance with the conservative majority in The Commons regarding a
> limited Canadian deployment to the Middle East.
>
> President George Bush was quite correct after 911 and the terror
> attacks in New York; that the Taliban “occupied” and “failed state”
> Afghanistan was the source of logistical support, command and control,
> and training for the Al Quaeda war of terror against the world. The
> initial defeat, and removal from control of Afghanistan was vital and
>
> P.S. Whereas this CBC article is about your opinion of the actions of
> the latest Minister Of Health trust that Mr Boudreau and the CBC have
> had my files for many years and the last thing they are is ethical.
> Ask his friends Mr Murphy and the RCMP if you don't believe me.
>
> Subject:
> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:02:35 -0400
> From: "Murphy, Michael B. \(DH/MS\)" MichaelB.Murphy@gnb.ca
> To: motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
>
> January 30, 2007
>
> WITHOUT PREJUDICE
>
> Mr. David Amos
>
> Dear Mr. Amos:
>
> This will acknowledge receipt of a copy of your e-mail of December 29,
> 2006 to Corporal Warren McBeath of the RCMP.
>
> Because of the nature of the allegations made in your message, I have
> taken the measure of forwarding a copy to Assistant Commissioner Steve
> Graham of the RCMP “J” Division in Fredericton.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Honourable Michael B. Murphy
> Minister of Health
>
> CM/cb
>
>
> Warren McBeath warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca wrote:
>
> Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:34:53 -0500
> From: "Warren McBeath" warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
> To: kilgoursite@ca.inter.net, MichaelB.Murphy@gnb.ca,
> nada.sarkis@gnb.ca, wally.stiles@gnb.ca, dwatch@web.net,
> motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
> CC: ottawa@chuckstrahl.com, riding@chuckstrahl.com,John.Foran@gnb.ca,
> Oda.B@parl.gc.ca,"Bev BUSSON" bev.busson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
> "Paul Dube" PAUL.DUBE@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
> Subject: Re: Remember me Kilgour? Landslide Annie McLellan has
> forgotten me but the crooks within the RCMP have not
>
> Dear Mr. Amos,
>
> Thank you for your follow up e-mail to me today. I was on days off
> over the holidays and returned to work this evening. Rest assured I
> was not ignoring or procrastinating to respond to your concerns.
>
> As your attachment sent today refers from Premier Graham, our position
> is clear on your dead calf issue: Our forensic labs do not process
> testing on animals in cases such as yours, they are referred to the
> Atlantic Veterinary College in Charlottetown who can provide these
> services. If you do not choose to utilize their expertise in this
> instance, then that is your decision and nothing more can be done.
>
> As for your other concerns regarding the US Government, false
> imprisonment and Federal Court Dates in the US, etc... it is clear
> that Federal authorities are aware of your concerns both in Canada
> the US. These issues do not fall into the purvue of Detachment
> and policing in Petitcodiac, NB.
>
> It was indeed an interesting and informative conversation we had on
> December 23rd, and I wish you well in all of your future endeavors.
>
>  Sincerely,
>
> Warren McBeath, Cpl.
> GRC Caledonia RCMP
> Traffic Services NCO
> Ph: (506) 387-2222
> Fax: (506) 387-4622
> E-mail warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>
>
>
> Alexandre Deschênes, Q.C.,
> Office of the Integrity Commissioner
> Edgecombe House, 736 King Street
> Fredericton, N.B. CANADA E3B 5H1
> tel.: 506-457-7890
> fax: 506-444-5224
> e-mail:coi@gnb.ca
>
>
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Subject: Automatic reply: In 1966, Cohen told a young CBC host named Adrienne Clarkson
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Medavie won't profit from takeover, CEO says

Bernard Lord says no one will be reaping any money from running programs

By Jacques Poitras, Posted: Sep 15, 2017 6:30 AM AT

Medavie Health Services will take over management of the extramural and Tele-Care programs. (Getty Images/Cultura RF)

Privatization and profits usually go hand in hand: government signs a contract for a private company to take over a public service, and that company gets to make money from it.

But Moncton-based Medavie says it isn't just any private company.

It's a little understood anomaly, a unique corporate entity now taking over the running of the province's extramural nursing and Tele-Care programs.

"We don't believe Medavie should be involved," said seniors' advocate Cecile Cassista this week. "They're there to make money, and there's no question about it."

There are many objections to the deal, but the idea that Medavie has a profit motive — in the sense that owners or investors will get rich from the deal — is wrong.

Medavie has no shareholders or investors. It makes no profit that is paid out to owners or investors.
"The non-for-profit relates primarily to the fact there are no outside shareholders," CEO Bernard Lord said. "No one is paid dividends. That structure does not exist."

Lord has repeated that in multiple interviews, as have the members of Premier Brian Gallant's Liberal cabinet who have been defending the deal.

Assumptions being made

Despite that, there's been a frequent assumption that someone will reap the profits.

NDP leader Jennifer McKenzie said last week on a CBC political panel that the deal includes "bonuses and profits that go back based on a number of indicators."

She was referring to what she and others have called a $4.4 million bonus.

In fact, the province says it will pay $2.6 million a year to cover administrative costs, and $1.8 million more if Medavie can hit targets such as more extramural visits and fewer trips by New Brunswickers to emergency rooms.

But that money doesn't represent a profit for Medavie. It doesn't go to Medavie shareholders, because they don't exist. It goes back into operations or to charity.

"I've been in some of these battles before," Lord said, "and some of the statements are just wrong."

Former Health Minister Victor Boudreau and former New Brunswick premier Bernard Lord, the CEO of Medavie, made the announcement that Medavie Health Services was taking over management of the extramural and Telecare programs on Sept. 1. (Kate Letterick/CBC)

Lord was New Brunswick's Progressive Conservative premier from 1999 to 2006. He was hired as Medavie's CEO last year, and unveiled the new agreement with then-Liberal Health Minister Victor Boudreau on Sept. 1.

Another Medavie company, Medavie Health Services, will take over management of the extramural and Telecare programs and integrate them with Ambulance New Brunswick, which it already operates.

'It just evolved this way'

Staff such as nurses will work for a new government-created company, with the same seniority and union contracts, but the company's managers will be Medavie employees.

Medavie Blue Cross and Medavie Health Services are both subsidiaries of parent company Medavie, which is also a not-for-profit company. It has 5,500 employees across Canada.

"I wish I could tell you this is a simple structure, but it isn't," Lord said. "It just evolved this way."
The organization started as the Maritime Hospital Service Association in 1943, before government-funded health insurance existed.

"No one put up capital. No one owns the capital." - CEO Bernard Lord

The non-profit organization provided prepaid hospital stay coverage, funded by premiums. After the advent of Medicare, it shifted its focus to coverage to other areas, such as medication.

It adopted the Blue Cross name, used by similar organizations in the U.S., in 1986.

Medavie Blue Cross, headquartered in Moncton, now runs group health benefit plans for employers and offers prepaid health insurance for self-employed people without workplace plans.

It also manages some government programs. For example, it processes claims and payments for Veterans Affairs Canada and for the basic health coverage provided to refugees.

'Another level'

There are similar not-for-profit Blue Cross organizations across Canada, "but we at Medavie Blue Cross have maybe taken it to another level," Lord said.

Medavie Health Services started running provincial ambulance services in Prince Edward Island in 2006 and in New Brunswick in 2007. It now runs the service in Nova Scotia as well as in some regions of Ontario, Saskatchewan, and Alberta.

All along, there has been no private investors in the organization and no profits being paid out.
"No one put up capital," Lord said. "No one owns the capital."

Medavie Health Services revenues are reinvested into operations and used to pay out benefit claims. If there’s revenue left over, it goes to the Medavie Health Foundation. (Getty Images/Blend Images)

Executives including Lord earn competitive salaries, but that also happens at government-owned Crown corporations such as NB Power and NB Liquor, which return their profits to the province to fund programs or pay down the deficit.

Medavie's revenues are called "retained earnings" that are re-invested into operations and used to pay out benefit claims. If there's revenue left over, it goes to the Medavie Health Foundation.

The foundation is a charity that makes donations to organizations working in the areas of youth mental health, Type 2 diabetes, and post-traumatic stress disorder.

So excess "profit" by Medavie isn't going back into government programs, or into paying down the deficit, but, Lord said, it's not making anyone wealthy, either.

"We give that 'dividend' to the foundation," he said.

Francophone group shifts strategy in fight to keep extramural away from Medavie

Égalité Santé en français drops judicial review of Medavie contract, pursues broader constitutional challenge

By Jacques Poitras, CBC News Posted: Jan 04, 2018 11:39 AM AT

​Dr. Hubert Dupuis, president of Égalité Santé en français, believes a recent law giving the health minister the power to sign the Medavie contract strengthens the group's argument the government is not respecting the rights of francophones. 

A francophone lobby group is changing its legal strategy in its fight against the Gallant government's privatization of the management of the extramural care program.

Égalité Santé en français was preparing for a judicial review hearing next week, where it was to ask the court to rule that Health Minister Benoît Bourque lacked the legal power to let the private, not-for-profit Medavie run the program.

But that court date is now off, with the group shifting its focus to a broader constitutional challenge of how health care is run in the province.

​Dr. Hubert Dupuis, the president of Égalité Santé en français, said a new law passed last month giving Bourque the power to sign the contract meant there was no case for judicial review.

"This means that the minister … has the authority to privatize the management of the extramural program in New Brunswick," Dupuis said. "We would probably lose our judicial review on that fact."

'Flagrant action'

The group's lawyers will instead amend a constitutional challenge it filed in court last June to add the Medavie changes.

That challenge argued that the Charter of Rights and Freedoms requires that francophones be given direct control over the Vitalité Health Network.

In a 21-page statement of claim, Égalité Santé en français argued the provincial government forced francophones to deal with majority-anglophone organizations when it allowed Service New Brunswick and private companies to run parts of the health care system.

It argues that violates Section 16.1 of the Charter, which gives English and French communities the right to "such distinct cultural institutions as are necessary" for the preservation of their culture and language.

'The fact that he changed his powers to give him the authority to quash the francophone community, I think really shows how the minister is meddling and not respecting our rights.' - Hubert Dupuis, Égalité Santé

The Medavie deal was announced in August, two months after the case was filed.

Dupuis said the passage of a new law to allow the agreement with Medavie is "a flagrant action which proves what we are saying," he said. "It strengthens our constitutional argument."

"The minister, after the fact, changed the law, so the francophone and Acadian communities would not win. The fact that he changed his powers to give him the authority to quash the francophone community, I think really shows how the minister is meddling and not respecting our rights."

Section 16.1 explicitly guarantees duality in education, but its application to the health-care system has never been tested in New Brunswick courts.

Égalité Santé argues in its court filing that it does apply because health institutions have "cultural, economic and social" effects on the francophone community.

The agreement with Medavie will transfer management of the extramural program and the Telecare program. The company plans to integrate them with Ambulance New Brunswick.

The province said the arrangement will allow more efficient delivery of the services to an increasingly aging population that relies on them.

Review of redactions to Medavie contracts

Meanwhile, Integrity Commissioner Alexandre Deschênes said Thursday he is reviewing "proposed redactions" to the three contracts the province signed with Medavie on Dec. 31.

Bourque promised last fall that the agreements would be released publicly as soon as they were signed. But the Health Department says it has asked Deschênes to review them first to ensure the public sees what it has a right to see.

Deschênes said he won't make his comments public and releasing them will be up to the department.

He said his review does not prevent the public from filing right-to-information requests to the government for the contracts or from making complaints to his office about how those requests are handled.

A Health Department spokesperson said the contracts should be released "in the coming days."

 

Francophone lobby group sues province over Vitalité Health's independence

Citing Charter of Rights, Égalité Santé en français argues for 'full and complete' control of health network

CBC News Posted: Jun 14, 2017 6:50 PM AT

Dr. Hubert Dupuis, president of Égalité Santé en français, said the lawsuit is about countering 'assimilation and to allow the vitality and development of the francophone and Acadian community.'

The francophone lobby group Égalité Santé en français is suing the province to force it to give the Vitalité Health Network more independence from the government.

The lawsuit argues that the Charter of Rights and Freedoms gives francophones the right to have "full and complete" control of "their" health authority.

"This is not a question of being served in our language," said the group's president, Dr. Hubert Dupuis, "but of having control of our francophone health institutions to counter assimilation and to allow the vitality and development of the francophone and Acadian community."

Vitalité runs hospitals and other health facilities in Moncton and in francophone regions in Kent County and in northwest and northeast New Brunswick.

Administration uses French

It's one of two health authorities in the province, created by legislation, and has a board of directors with eight people who are elected and seven who are appointed.

Vitalité's administration operates in French but it's required by the Official Languages Act to serve the public in both French and English.

The lawsuit asks the court to recognize francophone rights to "distinct" health institutions, to require the province to ensure Vitalité offers services equal to those at the Horizon Health Network, to require proper funding for the Dr. Georges-L.-Dumont University Hospital Centre's medical school programs, and to stop what it calls the health minister's and health department's "interference" with Vitalité's management.

Against move to privatize

Vitalité's board has come out against a Liberal government plan to privatize the management of food and cleaning services in the province's hospitals. The board says it can run those services at the same cost or lower.

Dupuis says Égalité Santé supports Vitalité on that issue.

The group says it wants the law on regional health authorities amended to give Vitalité "real autonomy" from the provincial government.

In 2012, under pressure from Égalité Santé en français, the previous Progressive Conservative government committed $9 million over five years for a "catch-up" plan to help Vitalité match some of the services offered in Horizon Health hospitals.

Not caught up

But last year Dupuis said the money wasn't being spent property to ensure that catch-up.

The lawsuit is based on Section 16.1 of the charter, which guarantees the two language communities in New Brunswick their own distinct educational and cultural institutions.

Whether Section 16.1 applies to health-care facilities has never been resolved by the courts.

The Department of Health and Vitalité's CEO Gilles Lanteigne both say they won't comment on the lawsuit because it's heading to court.

Medavie CEO defends takeover of extramural management

Former premier Bernard Lord says company will be more innovative in serving aging population

CBC News Posted: Sep 14, 2017 10:56 AM AT

Former Health Minister Victor Boudreau and former New Brunswick premier Bernard Lord, the CEO of Medavie, made the home-care announcement in Moncton. (Kate Letterick/CBC) 

With its aging population, New Brunswick is aiming to improve patient care, Medavie's CEO said Thursday in defending the company's coming management of home-care services against critics who predict patients and employees will suffer.

"We need to find innovative solutions to be able to improve care and maintain care level," said Bernard Lord, a former premier of New Brunswick.

Medavie, which also runs Ambulance New Brunswick, will take over the home health-care program and 811 health advice line in January under a 10-year contract.

Lord said discussions about the move have been going on for some time.

"When we look at the challenges coming in New Brunswick, with an aging population and overall people in the workforce, we need to find innovative solutions to be able to improve care and maintain care level," said Lord.

Medavie will make an estimated $4.4 million in the first year of the contract if it meets performance targets.

In the last 15 years, Lord said, the population of people 65 and older in New Brunswick grew by more than 50 per cent.

"No one is questioning the job of the people that are doing the work," he said. "It's how do we improve the system to meet the growing need?"

How will it improve?

According to the Health Department, Ambulance New Brunswick and the extramural program will combine to become a single entity managed by Medavie. Nurses and other extramural employees will continue to be paid by the province, but their managers will be with Medavie.

Details about how Medavie will run the program have not been revealed. For instance, it's not clear whether Medavie will have offices in communities where managers, nurses and other professionals collaborate, as happens now, or whether nurses will be on-call during the night, as also happens.

But Lord said that with innovation and better technology the takeover will be able to improve the extramural system.

He said the change will provide more visits at home for patients and fewer visits to the emergency department that aren't needed.

'Our objective is to be a partner to improve the health outcomes of people.' -Bernard Lord, CEO of Medavie

Provinces like Nova Scotia and Ontario, similar projects have been undertaken to reduce unnecessary emergency department visits and provide better care at home, he said.

"By doing that, patients win because they get the care that they need where they are, at home and where they want it, at home," he said.

Lord did not elaborate on what Nova Scotia's program does differently that would make it better than the program extramural has been providing in New Brunswick, which has been considered a leader in home health care.

But he said taxpayers will get more value for their money.

"By co-ordinating these services, ultimately the patients win," he said.

Negative response

Since the province announced Medavie's takeover almost two weeks ago, there has been a backlash from people who work in health care and those receiving it.

The New Brunswick Nurses Union said privatization doesn't belong in New Brunswick's health-care system.

Paula Doucet, president of the New Brunswick Nurses Union, which opposes privatization in health care. (CBC News)

Katherine d'Entremont, New Brunswick's commissioner of official languages also criticized the Liberal government for putting extramural into Medavie's hands, expressing concern about patients getting service in the language of their choice.

Vitalité Health Network president and CEO Gilles Lanteigne said the change "dismantles" a service that has been highly appreciated by patients and communities.

Meanwhile, representatives of L'association francophone des aînés du Nouveau-Brunswick and the Coalition for Seniors and Nursing Home Residents' Rights met with Health Department officials earlier this week to express their concerns about the Medavie deal and promised to fight it.

But Lord said it's not unusual for government to make significant changes in the public and private sectors.

"That's why we collectively have an obligation to make sure we provide factual information so we don't scare people for no reason," he said.

Performance-based agreement

Medavie will be looking for "efficiencies" and have performance targets to meet in order to get paid, government officials have said.

Lord said Medavie will be accountable to meet standards set by the province in its performance-based agreement.

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"If we don't provide the improvements that we think we can provide, then we don't get paid the same amount of money," he said.

"Our objective is to be a partner to improve the health outcomes of people."