Gatineau couple discharged from Ottawa family doctor 'shocked,' seeking answers

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2. Sounds like a definitional issue with "true nation"

The real issue here is localization of state functions, because having a PCP in another province would be a nonstarter in a Cuban-style provincial health system with direct employment.

Canada is similar to the UK and Belgium as federations of distinct peoples or nations, and devolution of state services is one mechanism that keeps those federations intact.

Quebec considers itself a nation, and exerts local control intolerable in multinational communist federations such as the Soviet Union. They have a system to provide care for the people of that nation. This is a convenience issue, although I'm not unaware of the GP staffing problems in Canada.