Dr. Penny Ballem - Former Deputy Minister of Health Critical of BC Liberals, Doctors and MACs

Dr. Penny J Ballem is the longest serving Deputy Minister of Health in Canada in the last 15 years and for the last 22 years in British Columbia. Dr. Ballem suddenly and unexpectedly resigned the top BC bureaucrat Government Health Care job last June, charging that the plans the premier and his deputy minister "have established for the organization of the Ministry of Health are unsound and reflect a lack of confidence in my leadership on your part" - this according to The Vancouver Sun's Miro Cernetig as quoted in Public Eye Online.