Just like every other chief medical officer of health across the country. I had a mandate and the legal authority to speak to the public about the issues related to health. I was fully aware, however, that if I were wildly off side with what the provincial health minister and government believed, it could make my position challenging, and that if I was too far off the mark too often, the government could render me ineffective or fire me all together.

In Bonnie Henry’s book she admits her messaging was not in the publics interest but in the provincial governments interest first. Or she might lose her job - The Daily News
In Bonnie Henry’s book she admits her messaging was not in the publics interest but in the provincial governments interest first. Or she might lose her job