There will be no user fees for healthcare in Quebec after all:
Quebecers quickly organized large street demonstrations when the government announced it would charge taxpayers a $200-a-year health premium, then bill patients another $25 for each hospital visit.
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Quebec’s user fees would have brought an estimated $500 million a year to the provincial treasury.
The province says it now has to find another way to fill that budget shortfall; health care costs in the province are now more than $20 billion per year and are projected to grow five per cent annually.
Here’s a thought: How about we start by scrapping $20 million annual budget for the Office de la langue française?