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Belliveau, MacLeod booted in raucous House question period

"There’s a time to be silent, a time to be a diplomat, and there’s a time to be strong and boisterous."

Question Period at Province House on Wednesday became raucous and resulted in the ejection of two MLAs, as most of the QP time was taken up in questions to Health & Wellness minsiter Leo Glavine about the government's failure to provide adequate physicians in Cape Breton, about the failure to resolve the issues surrounding the epidemic of closures of the Emergency Room at Roseway Hospital and about the inability for the government to move forward on the construction of a new medical centre in Shelburne.

MacLeod was ejected for refusing to withdraw his assertion that Glavine had not told the truth in his QP responses. Belliveau was ejected for his out-of-order comments about citizens in Shelburne/Queens being fed up with government inaction on health care issues in the riding.

Within hours, the fracas evolved into a fractious debate on the Shelburne Exchange Facebook page. Several readers supported Belliveau's efforts and several others were highly critical of his actions. Some of the critical comments included; "turned his back on us while he was in office"; "Sterling gets a huge FAIL on producing results"; "Too little too late."; "The time to git 'er dun was when his government was in power."

Several Facebook readers pleaded for Shelburne citizens to take a positive approach to health care dilemma, with one reader posting, "In my opinion its time to put partisan politics aside show some support for the man who is trying to do something. The events and decisions that have led to where we are span 8 years and multiple political parties. To get out of this mess will require a focused and united effort from people of all political stripes. Its time to lay down our arms and unite, for the good of Shelburne."

When asked via email for comments about what provoked his expulsion, Belliveau had this to say, "There’s a time to be silent, a time to be a diplomat, and there’s a time to be strong and boisterous. The people of Queen’s-Shelburne have had enough of the hollow promises made by the McNeil government about health services in the region. Citizens in the riding want their voices to be heard. In representing them, I wanted to make sure my voice was heard yesterday in the Legislature.” 

In response to an SCT request for information regarding recent efforts by Belliveau regarding health care issues, his office supplied SCT with the following record from the Provincial Legislature, which showed nineteen items in a three-week period:


STATEMENTS about ER closures delivered by Sterling Belliveau in the House of Assembly

Spring 2016

 




April 14

http://nslegislature.ca/index.php/proceedings/hansard/C96/house_16apr14/

Belliveau

Roseway ER closures

7699

 

April 15

http://nslegislature.ca/index.php/proceedings/hansard/C96/house_16apr15/

Belliveau

Roseway ER closures – November 2015

7748

 

April 19

http://nslegislature.ca/index.php/proceedings/hansard/C96/house_19apr16/

Belliveau

Roseway ER closures – December 2015

7825

Belliveau

Roseway ER closures – early January 2016

7827

 

April 20

http://nslegislature.ca/index.php/proceedings/hansard/C96/house_16apr20/

Belliveau

Roseway ER closures – January 2016

7890

Belliveau

Mission statement of Super Health Authority

7895

 

April 21

http://nslegislature.ca/index.php/proceedings/hansard/C96/house_16apr21/

Belliveau

Roseway ER closures – end of January 2016

7983

 

April 22

http://nslegislature.ca/index.php/proceedings/hansard/C96/house_16apr22/

 

April 25

http://nslegislature.ca/index.php/proceedings/hansard/C96/house_16apr25/

Belliveau

Need apology for broken physician promise

8138

 

 

 

April 26

http://nslegislature.ca/index.php/proceedings/hansard/C96/house_16apr26/

Belliveau

Roseway renovation update

8184

 

April 27

http://nslegislature.ca/index.php/proceedings/hansard/C96/house_16apr27/

Belliveau

Roseway ER closures Feb

8299

Belliveau

Roseway ER closures end of Feb

8304

 

 

 

April 29

http://nslegislature.ca/index.php/proceedings/hansard/C96/house_16apr29/

Belliveau

Roseway ER closures mid-Mar

8501

Belliveau

Roseway ER closures end of Mar & Apr

8504

 

 

 

May 2

http://nslegislature.ca/index.php/proceedings/hansard/C96/house_16may02/

Belliveau

Roseway ER Closures PART 10

8549

Belliveau

Roseway ER Closures

8553

 

 

 

May 3

http://nslegislature.ca/index.php/proceedings/hansard/C96/house_16may03/

Belliveau

Roseway ER Closures

8594

 

 

 

May 4

http://nslegislature.ca/index.php/proceedings/hansard/C96/house_16may04/

Belliveau

Amalgamation

8677

Belliveau

Roseway ER Closures Summary

8682

 

 

 

 

 

May 5

http://nslegislature.ca/index.php/proceedings/hansard/C96/house_16may05/

Belliveau

Physical shortages – broken promises

8772

 

 

 

May 6

http://nslegislature.ca/index.php/proceedings/hansard/C96/house_16may06/

Belliveau

Roseway ER closures 500 hours

8881

 

 

 

 

 

 

May 10

http://nslegislature.ca/index.php/proceedings/hansard/C96/house_16may10/

Belliveau

Roseway Closure on Mother’s Day

8958

 

QUESTIONS about ER closures, asked by Sterling Belliveau in the House of Assembly

Spring 2016





April 26

http://nslegislature.ca/index.php/proceedings/hansard/C96/house_16apr26/

Belliveau

Acting premier

Shelburne Medical Centre

8208

 

 

 

 

April 29

http://nslegislature.ca/index.php/proceedings/hansard/C96/house_16apr29/

Belliveau

Health

ER closures

8527

 

 

 

 

May 11

http://nslegislature.ca/index.php/proceedings/hansard/C96/house_16may11/

Belliveau

Premier

ER closures, wait-times, MD shortages

9163

 

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