The doctor outrage would have been avoided in Ontario if the prov. government had just negotiated fee increases rather than doctor self incorporation for tax benefits.  if provinces are strapped, they will have to get creative - cut bureaucracy, allow nurse practitioners to triage and diagnose, prescribe basic meds or make referrals. They work up north doing many GP doctor functions when doctors do not want to relocate there. And doctors today want M-F 9 to 5 jobs and mat leave. Doctors work in group practices for the most part to share the off hours work rather than redirect patients to urgent care off hour clinics. It should be the group practice/clinic that incorporates, not the individual doctor. T he individual doctor can be an employee of the clinic, with all the advantages of employees for EI,RRSP, CPP, vac pay. Or, keep the former medical partnerships, and keep the doctors as partners (report share personally for tax), not a group of self incorporated doctors as partners.