2026-09-17 from theglobeandmail.com

The former chief executive of Canada Health Infoway is suing the federally funded non-profit for wrongful dismissal, alleging that he was made a scapegoat for the failure of a $300-million project to get doctors to send their prescriptions electronically.

Infoway had offered to pay a year’s worth of Michael Green’s base salary of $616,700, plus bonuses, benefits and car allowance as part of his severance package when it dismissed him without cause in April, documents show.

But Mr. Green says in a lawsuit that he was terminated without just cause and is owed more than $3-million in damages rather than a severance package.

Reacting to the latest disclosure about Mr. Green’s severance package, Conservative MP Dan Mazier, who had led some of the questioning before a parliamentary committee of the former CEO and other witnesses on the topic of the PrescribeIT project, said Infoway should be defunded.

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