Ontario Health Minister David Caplan fired the head of the electronic health records agency, eHealth Ontario, amid a multi-million-dollar contracts scandal. Caplan said the decision to revoke Sarah Kramer's title was necessary to restore public confidence in the agency. (The opposition parties had been hammering Caplan for weeks over eHealth, accusing the government of allowing Kramer to award friends multi-million dollar contracts without bidding.)

Date: 2009-06-07
Placeline: TORONTO, Ontario.
Source: The Canadian Press
Length: 18 seconds

Transcript Prediction: << give certainty is if it has threatened to delay important projects and put taxpayer dollars and risk of delivering poor results so I can do that is why the board and then I fully concur >>

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