Canada's healthcare system was in a crisis state before Covid, but Covid and the ensuing burnout and churn of healthcare staff (and firings), have caused the system to sporadically fail. By that I mean, sporadic hospital closures, inability to get an ambulance for days, year long waits for specialists and even family doctors in some places (montreal). It's crazy. And it's only going to get worse as hospitals have to take more of the burden from people going to ER's because no family doctors are available, etc.
Don't know about the roc but in Quebec the order of doctors is infested with unethical personel like M. Barrette and M. Couillard who negotiated their own salaries and kept the traditional rejection of change on how doctors are trained, what nurses are allowed to do, etc.<p>It is baffling to me as to how doctors are allowed to keep this monopoly on care and behave as if hell bent on perpetuating an eternal crisis of scarcity among the profession. It ends up with doctors being paid at least 100$/h when cost of living is nowhere near that.<p>It is also my anecdata that almost half the doctors I've met are assholes (3/7). Probably doesn't help to create a great work environment.