Clinics that are probably closing
The Journal has a list of medical clinics that are probably going to close in response to the passing of Bill 2.
Same day, I read that Bill 7 is going to merge two major public health agencies and cut jobs in a flailing attempt to save money, a move that isn’t welcomed by actual health practitioners, some of whom fear political interference in research.
mare 10:43 on 2025-12-02 Permalink
I score 2 out of 2 (I have a GP at one of those clinics and another GMF is providing hormones).
My GP’s clinic has more than 20 doctors, both GPs and specialists. They must have 10s of thousands of patients.
I’m floored.
Paul 11:07 on 2025-12-02 Permalink
Bravo CAQ. Take a bow.
Kevin 11:18 on 2025-12-02 Permalink
Quebec’s governments don’t actually want to make public healthcare better, they want to break it.
-In the 1990s, Lucien Bouchard offered early retirement to doctors
-In 2003, health minister Francois Legault created the PREM system to penalize doctors who work in Montreal
-Gaetan Barrette’s successive reforms to centralize healthcare decision-making. This means doctors in clinics lose control over choosing their support staff.
-AMP requirements get increased, meaning family doctors are only allowed to see their own patients for 3.5 days a week.
-Christian Dube implements another reform to allow nurses and receptionists to switch jobs while retaining seniority, so support staff begin playing musical chairs in search of less-demanding jobs
-Don’t forget the GAMF, the famous waiting list of people who need family doctors, which is full of errors and which is impossible for anyone to correct.
-Christian Dube rams through Bill 2 either without being aware of what it says, or pretending to be unaware of what it says, so doctors will see drastic pay cuts if the government decides not to hire enough janitors to clean operating rooms.
“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.”
Meezly 15:44 on 2025-12-02 Permalink
@Kevin, can I share and credit you for what you wrote there?
Meezly 15:45 on 2025-12-02 Permalink
Has everyone signed and shared the assnat petition? I’m surprised there aren’t more signatures:
https://www.assnat.qc.ca/en/exprimez-votre-opinion/petition/Petition-11807/index.html
Kate 17:25 on 2025-12-02 Permalink
Signed, thank you, Meezly.
Kevin 17:28 on 2025-12-02 Permalink
Meezly
Go ahead and share without crediting me. Thx.
Ian 17:41 on 2025-12-02 Permalink
I forgot it was Legault that brought in PREM. Thanks for that reminder!
dwgs 17:52 on 2025-12-02 Permalink
Our family doctor retired almost ten years ago. We spent about 5 years on the wait list until we were contacted by a Nurse Practitioner and told we could get on board with her or we would be sent to the bottom of the wait list again. She turned out to be excellent and as our kids graduated from their pediatrician she took them on too. Everything was great until some time a year and a half ago or so. Her patient list was increased dramatically and that decision was beyond her control. She has been noticeably stressed the last couple of times I saw her. Yesterday I got a call from the clinic cancelling my appointment scheduled for the 12th. She’s on leave and they don’t know if or when she will come back so now all four of us are in limbo. I pointed out that I have a prescription which is overdue for renewal I was advised to get in touch with the urgent care clinic…
Uatu 10:43 on 2025-12-03 Permalink
Priorities! Health Care is not important. What is: listening to France D’amour at home like a real Quebecois. /S
azrhey 11:31 on 2025-12-03 Permalink
When I graduated High School in 94 I had 3 or 4 friends who wanted to be nurses and the counsellor highly discouraged them to go that path because “Quebec has too many nurses” and the classes were very hard to get to because they wanted to cut on the number of admissions into nursing school a lot because…too many nurses. None of them ended up in Nursing school.
Cut to 30 years later….
Ian 12:09 on 2025-12-03 Permalink
Same thing happened with primary and high school teachers.
CE 13:30 on 2025-12-03 Permalink
The same thing also happened with the trades. My middle school and high school both turned their shop classes into computer labs (despite almost all of already knowing how to use computers but most of us not knowing how to cut a piece of wood).
Tim S. 19:39 on 2025-12-03 Permalink
CE: at the last meet the teacher night I went to, ALL the parents were super thrilled that there was a shop class. Alas, it turns out they’re not learning to cut wood because some of the equipment is broken.