Quebec Health Minister Sonia Bélanger gave her first media interviews last week since being hastily named to her new post before Christmas. Her predecessor, Christian Dubé, quit in a huff when the government backed down on Bill 2, its controversial law foisting a new pay model on doctors.

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Bélanger, who may be familiar to Montrealers from pandemic press briefings alongside director of public health Dr. Mylène Drouin back when she was president and director general of the CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l’Île-de-Montréal, finds herself in the hot seat once again.

Bélanger is now the last (wo)man standing from Premier François Legault’s trio of health and social services ministers. Besides Dubé throwing in the towel over his opposition to the resolution of the standoff with doctors, Social Services Minister Lionel Carmant jumped ship during the showdown because, as a........

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