Article by André Picard of the Globe and Mail.
Normand Rinfret, president and chief executive of the MUHC, hailed the facility as a “shining icon for Montreal, for Quebec and for Canada.” He also thanked those who envisaged, designed, planned and managed the project and carried out the construction – and he did so with a straight face.
Politics and greed came to trump sound policy and common sense.
The MUHC saga is a shameful example of the worst of petty politics and spineless policy-making, a two-decade-long debacle featuring corruption, bribery, petty politics and incompetence on a scale rarely seen in Canada.
So far, taxpayers have had to fork over about $5.4-billion for two hospitals and some renos to older ones, and some economists predict that, when the final tally is done, it will reach $8.6-billion.
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