So the law will impose huge penalties(up to 500,000 per day) on doctors who don’t help enough people. Why? Is there something I’m missing? On the surface it sounds dumb but I’m no expert.
A couple articles I’ve read make it sound like the government is pushing doctors to see more patients per day by tying compensation to the requirement, which sounds like it could be a recipe for lots of short, less than fruitful patient visits.
What’s really disturbing are the bill’s penalties for protesting/defying the government’s policies ($20,000 a day for individual doctors up to $500K for group action).
Wait - so if you dare to move to a job in another province, Quebec will impose a hugely punitive fine on you?
Sounds like this may not survive a court challenge.
Does Canada have free speech laws? How do they factor into something like this?
Good news for New Brunswick. We could definitely use more doctors.
Why? Because Quebec governments in recent decades – pretty much across all parties – have been oppressively bureaucratic with both socialist and xenophobic inclinations. They believe that great outcomes can be achieved purely by government decree, which has resulted in (for instance) Quebec having arguably the worst health care system in Canada despite extraordinary legislative efforts to improve it just by brute force of law.
Yes, but we don’t believe in free speech absolutism in all circumstances.
One major factor might be that in order to get Quebec to sign on to the Constitution Act of 1982, on their insistence the Constitution allows provinces to invoke a “notwithstanding” clause, basically saying that regardless of what the Constitution says, in this particular instance we’re not abiding by it.
That’s really interesting. Thank you!
(for certain sections of the Constitution, not all of them)