Premier Francois Legault and Junior Health Minister Lionel Carmant visited Sainte-Justine Hospital on Friday to offer comfort to sick children and their parents.
Legault and his team went room-to-room to ask children why they were in the hospital.
Reporters then questioned Legault about the planned Vaudreuil-Soulanges hospital which is facing delays because land has not been expropriated.
The location that was preferred by the previous government, adjacent to Highway 30, is an agricultural terrain that several groups object to.
Legault said that a new location would be chosen quickly.
"I have a lot of pressure from Marie-Lynn," he quipped while gesturing to one of his aides.
"My sister also is living in Saint-Lazare, so I met her last weekend, so she reminded me we have to be fast in building this hospital in Vaudreuil."
Health Minister Danielle McCann is going to meet the mayors of Vaudreuil-Soulanges in 2019 to choose a new location.
The premier also faced questions about abolishing school boards.
He said that the rights of people and communities, especially the English community, would be respected by his government's plan to remove the boards and decentralize scholastic services.
“Our position is clear. I know people from the school boards are not happy with our position, but we want to replace the nine school boards -- nine English school boards -- by nine service centres, and we want to decentralize. There will be a board over the new service centres, including parents, so Anglophones won't lose any powers,” he said.
