Many Quebec doctors applying to other provinces for jobs: reports

Medical professionals in Quebec are teaming up to speak out against a law that ties a portion of physician pay to performance indicators.

In an event described by organizers as “unprecedented,” more than 12,000 doctors, medical students, and their supporters packed Montreal’s Bell Centre, demanding the Quebec government suspend Bill 2.

“I’ve never seen a mobilization of this scale, but I’ve never seen a law as bad as the one we’re seeing now,” said Marc-André Amyot, president of the Fédération des médecins omnipraticiens du Québec (FMOQ), according to a CBC report.

He warned that the law is already driving hundreds of physicians to seek opportunities in other provinces or retire early, calling the situation “a catastrophe.”

Bill 2 addresses doctors' compensation

Bill 2, pushed through the National Assembly by Premier François Legault’s government using closure, links part of doctors’ compensation to patient volume and other performance targets. It also introduces steep fines for physicians who engage in collective action or pressure tactics to resist the changes. The government argues these measures are necessary to improve access for the 1.5 million Quebecers without a family doctor, but the backlash has been swift and fierce.

“This law was billed as something that would help access, when in fact, this law is breaking our system,” said Karine Igartua, psychiatrist and member of the board of the Fédération...

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