Quebec election: Would-be health ministers square off in debate

In the first debate of the Quebec election campaign, candidates for the four main political parties squared off Wednesday afternoon on the subject of health care at the headquarters of the province’s largest nurses’ federation.
Absent from the debate was Health Minister Gaétan Barrette, whose controversial cost-cutting reforms have drawn criticism from nurses and other health professionals. Debating in his place was star Liberal candidate Gertrude Bourdon, the executive d