Under the new rules, the colleges will investigate complaints but the provincially appointed director of discipline will establish a panel to decide how someone will be disciplined.
The premier says 89 doctors, 260 nurses, 42 nurse practitioners and 23 allied health professionals have been hired between March 2025 and January 2026.
Regulatory red tape continues to stifle both the mobility and recruitment of the hundreds of thousands of domestic and foreign-trained regulated health professionals in the country.
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Many organizations and governments are invested in the idea of physicians as commodi-ties, as interchangeable parts of a plug-and-play medical machine.
‘We’re getting funding to bring on more people and attach more Ontarians, but if you don’t actually stabilize the workforce you have and stabilize the capital space that you have, you’re very limited in terms of being able to sustain attachment.’
Antoine Désilets, executive director of Société Santé en français, told the committee that two-thirds of francophones outside Quebec reported having only partial access to French-language health services, or none at all, in a 2022 Health Canada consultation.
