I doubt that Ontario nurse practitioners were surprised to see the announcement of a wage freeze for all public sector employees for the next two years in the recent budget.
There are now almost 3,500 fewer nurses working in the NHS than in 2010 and the number of managers has also dropped, the NHS workforce census has shown.
When a big government is run by people who don’t believe in big government, unexpected things can happen. So it is with Stephen Harper’s Conservatives.