Within days of being announced as an appointee to the Board of Directors to govern the new Saskatchewan Health Authority Don Rae of Yorkton has resigned his position.
Rae, the president and CEO of Yorkton-based Crusader Drilling Corp., came under fire last week from NDP MLA Nicole Sarauer for posts he made on Facebook.
In one instance, Rae shared a post that claimed the Liberals want to co-parent Canadian children and introduce them to “anal sex and made up genders.”
By the evening of June 22, the Saskatchewan government had confirmed Rae had resigned from both the SHA board and the regional Sunrise Regional Health Authority board. Shirley Xie Senior Media Relations Consultant requested questions be submitted by email.
The questions were sent as requested, but no direct answers, nor an interview, were forthcoming. Instead the response was “Minister (Jim) Reiter was at a media event last Friday and during the scrum, the media asked him quite a few similar questions as you indicated below.”
Yorkton This Week did refer to Facebook, but found Rae’s personal page was no longer visible.
It is not expected Rae’s absence from the 10-person board will delay the launch of the board, which will take over from the province’s current 12 health boards and oversee the delivery of health care for all of Saskatchewan.
The board is composed of 10 members appointed for three-year terms. R.W. (Dick) Carter of Regina has been appointed as Board Chairperson.
“It is important to our government that the Board of Directors of the new Saskatchewan Health Authority be based on competency in order to effectively guide what will be the largest organization in the province,” said Reiter in a release at the time of the Board announcement. “This distinguished group of five women and five men come from a diverse range of professional backgrounds, including governance, accounting, medicine, law, education, and business. Their experience in these industries will play an integral role in guiding the transition to a single provincial health authority and achieving our goal of delivering high-quality health care for the entire province.”
The board will legally begin governing operations when the Provincial Health Authority Act is proclaimed and the new organization officially launches (anticipated in fall 2017). In the meantime, the board will act in an advisory capacity to help guide the transition and prepare for operations. In this advisory capacity, board members will assist in reviewing and recommending potential candidates for Chief Executive Officer.
The 12 current Regional Health Authority (RHA) Boards will remain in place to lead the operations of the RHAs until the Saskatchewan Health Authority officially launches.
The date the Saskatchewan Health Authority will launch is still being determined, but is anticipated to occur in fall 2017.
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