Position Paper

The Quebec government, after having taken the decisions that were necessary to increase admissions to medicine in 2022, is now undermining its own efforts to attract more young people to medicine to Quebec by adopting these new constraints on practice.

This is what the FMRQ went to argue in parliamentary committee on February 6, 2025 as part of the bill which aims to promote the practice of medicine within the public health and social services network.

“We all want to work in a public system. But there are factors which mean that this is not always possible,” explains Dr Ghassen Soufi.

We are concerned about the new constraints that the Quebec government is proposing to impose on doctors at the start of their practice.

The immediate measure announced to link confirmation of particular medical activities (AMPs) of future family physicians to the confirmation of their region of practice, is a measure that will facilitate their…

This is what the FMRQ has expressed, among other issues, at the April 19, 2023, Parliamentary Commission on Bill 15.

Bill 22 proposes nothing less than to resurrect the Law promoting access to the services of family physicians and medical specialists.