Two Provincial Appointees Named to Grey Bruce Health Board as Key Report Remains Secret
Two members have been appointed to rebuild the Grey Bruce Health Board, including one from the previous board, as the report behind the 2025 takeover remains undisclosed to the public.
The Province has begun appointing members to a reconstituted Grey Bruce Public Health Board, but the report that led to last year’s takeover of the board remains undisclosed.
Two provincial appointees have now been named as part of the rebuilding process, including one who also served on the previous Board of Health before it was dissolved in August 2025.
Jim Pine and Dr Eileen de Villa, Special Advisors to the Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Kieran Moore, announced Friday, March 27, that the province appointed two members on March 12: David Nusko and returning member Chad Richards.
Reappointment Raises Questions
David Nusko is a lawyer with Nusko Professional Corporation and serves as a director on the Bruce–Grey–Owen Sound PC Association executive.
The other newly appointed member, Chad Richards, was also a provincial appointee on the former board when Dr. Moore assumed control, citing “serious concerns” related to governance, leadership, and financial management.
Richards is a Senior Strategist with Bruce Power and previously served as the legislative assistant to former Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MP Larry Miller for seven years. He also sought the Conservative nomination in the riding in 2019.
His reappointment comes as the province and counties say the new board will be guided by a skills-based matrix identifying 16 areas of expertise.
Officials said the matrix identifies core competencies that a well-functioning board should collectively possess, including financial oversight, legal knowledge, public health expertise, and Indigenous relations.
No one appointee is expected to meet all the criteria individually, and what those criteria are has not been made public.
While that framework is intended to strengthen governance, the return of a previous board member raises questions about how those criteria are being applied, and how much the board’s composition will ultimately change.
The province says up to four more provincial members may still be appointed, and the Counties of Grey and Bruce are “separately proceeding with their respective processes for appointing the seven municipal members.”
Report on GBPH Governance Issues Still Withheld
The province’s intervention last August followed an internal assessment triggered by complaints about the local board’s operations.
That report has not been made public.
Owen Sound Current filed a Freedom of Information request for the document shortly after the takeover. After unsuccessful mediation, the matter is now before an adjudicator with Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner.
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