Tracy Kitch’s conviction in September marked the second time she had been convicted of illegally billing personal expenses to the Halifax-based IWK Health Centre, Atlantic Canada’s largest children’s hospital.
In a statement on social media, Dubé says he is not the right person to continue negotiations with family doctors over changes to a controversial doctor-payment law that he helped push through the legislature.
With legislation set to ban sick notes for most minor illnesses, Doctors Manitoba launches a free toolkit urging employers to rely on self-attestations, paid leave and other alternatives.
Premier Danielle Smith announced her plan shortly after taking office, and it came just as she fired the board of the provincial health authority and replaced it with a lone administrator.
