Not much of a safety net when unelected health officials can make up rules as they see fit, especially when you consider that their decisions are heavily influenced/decided by business interests or knowing they have to "tow the line" or lose their job.

Excerpt from Bonny Henry's book:

"I was fully aware, however that if I were wildly offside 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".

Great, in her own words she admits that she had to just play ball and do what she was told or be canned. Rather than do the right thing she took the money.