Legislative, Regulatory & Legal

Social Services Minister Dr. Lionel Carmant, who himself is a physician, has resigned from caucus, deepening a crisis engulfing the Quebec government over a recently passed law imposing a new payment system on the province’s doctors.

Doctors in Quebec have been outraged over the contents of Bill 2, which forces a compensation system that ties a portion of physician pay to several performance metrics and imposes heavy fines for taking ‘concerted action’ to protest the government.