Opposition Leader Tony Wakeham today tabled the decision note signed by Minister Tom Osborne, detailing the contract with Canadian Health Labs for the provision of travel nurses to fill gaps in the health care system.

Wakeham presented the decision note in the house today during Question Period.

A recent Globe and Mail article showed that CHL was paid $35 million dollars over a five-month period, including more than $1.6 million dollars for meals that nurses told the paper they never received.

Wakeman told the House “It’s scandalous that this government was directly involved in approving these contracts.” He wanted to know when the premier became aware of $1.6 million paid out that was never given to the travel nurses themselves.

Osborne replied that he became of that issue in the Globe and Mail article because “that is as the former CEO of Labrador-Grenfell is aware, an operational issue, and that is something that no minister dictates or interferes with.”