Ontarios doctors set to vote on binding arbitration today
The provinces doctors are set to vote today on a tentative deal that would send contract disputes with the government to binding arbitration.
The province's doctors are set to vote today on a tentative deal that would send contract disputes with the government to binding arbitration.
The doctors have been without a physician services agreement for three years.
Seven other provinces and the Northwest Territories set physician compensation through a binding arbitration process, but the Ontario government had rejected the doctors' demand until reversing course earlier this year.
The Ontario Medical Association, which has about 44-thousand members, reached the tentative deal on a binding interest arbitration framework last month.
The Liberal government has angered doctors by imposing fee cuts for some services and clawing back their pay.