CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. — P.E.I.'s ethics commissioner's account of the events surrounding P.E.I.'s mobile mental health service paints a picture of friction ...
Former deputy health minister Mark Spidel speaks during a 2021 standing committee meeting. Spidel was fired in February 2022. Later that month, the P.E.I. Premier's Office was sent a report that found he had violated conflict of interest rules.CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. — P.E.I.'s ethics commissioner's account of the events surrounding P.E.I.'s mobile mental health service paints a picture of friction between Health P.E.I.
Matthew Spidel, who is Mark Spidel's brother, works as a senior manager with Medavie. Medavie also owns Island EMS, which operates P.E.I.’s ambulance service. - Stu Neatby/SaltWire Network File PhotoThe mobile mental health service was meant to reduce unnecessary emergency room visits by Islanders experiencing a mental health crisis.An initial proposal was developed by a cross-departmental team of staff with Health P.E.I.
By March 2020, Spidel told his assistant deputy minister, Deborah Bradley, he would be recusing himself from the file due to concerns he had heard about his brother’s role at Medavie. Spidel continued to direct the policy and development of the mobile mental health unit model throughout February and March of 2021 before again officially delegating the file to Bradley after speaking to Sullivan Curley on March 25, 2021.
While she found Spidel had taken some steps to recuse himself from some aspects of the mobile mental health file, she ultimately found Spidel had not fully complied with conflict of interest policies. Sullivan Curley’s report was not tabled in the legislature and was released to the Eastern Graphic through a FOIPP request. SaltWire later obtained it from the executive council.
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