David Dingwall: a Cape Breton streetfighter takes the helm at Health Canada

Charlotte Gray

Canadian Medical Association Journal 1996; 154: 909-911

Charlotte Gray is a CMAJ contributing editor.

Abstract

In naming David Dingwall minister of health 6 weeks ago, the prime minister signalled that Ottawa will not bow in the face of provincial pressures confronting medicare, Canada's most popular social program. However, with national unity preoccupying the second half of Jean Chrétien's mandate and only lukewarm support from Finance Minister Paul Martin, Dingwall faces an uphill battle as the champion of medicare and national health care standards.

| CMAJ March 15, 1996 (vol 154, no 6) |