At least a thousand protesters in Quebec City gather to denounce Bill 2

At least a thousand people gathered in front of the National Assembly on Saturday to protest Bill 2, which changes how doctors are paid.

This special bill was introduced on Nov. 24 and passed under closure a few hours later. It imposes performance targets on doctors and threatens them with penalties if they fail to meet them.

Bill 2 also provides for the establishment of a system to monitor doctors.

According to Gabrielle Voisine, an emergency room physician who took the stage during the demonstration, Bill 2 is “the final nail in the coffin of the healthcare system.”

“A majority government with historically low popular support that rammed through a complex law with profound societal impacts—I can only call that authoritarian drift,” she said to applause.

Family physician Kim Lévesque