Premier François Legault launched Monday that the developing housing the headquarters of Quebec’s medical medical insurance board (RAMQ) in Quebec Metropolis would formally be named the Claude Castonguay Setting up.
Claude Castonguay, who’s taken into consideration the daddy of the Quebec medical medical insurance plan, handed away on December 12, 2020.
At a commemoration ceremony in his memory on the Nationwide Assembly Monday, Legault described Castonguay as a builder of up to date Quebec, noting that he “devoted 50 years of his life to the widespread good of Quebecers.”
“Even in the mean time, his legacy is crucial to Quebecers, and that is the rationale we’re going to rename the developing of the RAMQ,” talked about Legault.
He talked about that the medical medical insurance card, beforehand typically referred to as the castonguette, modified the lives of many people.
“The poorest people did not always have entry to all nicely being care. With card, it is allowed all people, irrespective of their social class, to have entry.”
Legault talked about Claude Castonguay moreover “helped fairly a bit” throughout the founding of the Coalition avenir Québec (CAQ).
“I consulted him,” he talked about. “I frolicked at his dwelling in Nun’s Island to place in writing our electoral platform, and by no means merely in problems with nicely being. He was an individual who had opinions and was ready to differ points.”
His son, Philippe Castonguay, talked about his family was very grateful for the gesture.
“He is an individual who labored until very late in life. Even on the age of 90, he questioned how we’d switch forward, have additional social progress and social justice,” he talked about.
This report was first printed in French by The Canadian Press on June 6, 2022.