The federation representing\u00a0medical specialists in Quebec\u00a0officially filed its legal challenge on Wednesday, saying the government’s law is draconian and that it violates several charter rights.<\/p>\n
The federation is asking the court to suspend the most onerous parts of the legislation immediately until the case can be fully argued on its merits.<\/p>\n
Several doctors have already said they will be leaving Quebec’s public health-care system and dozens have already begun applying for licences to practise in other provinces<\/a> in response to Health Minister Christian Dub\u00e9’s special law.<\/p>\n Among the doctors considering leaving Quebec is Carmant’s daughter, who is a specialist in maternal-fetal medicine. In a letter published in Le Devoir<\/a> on Wednesday, Laurence Carmant said she might move elsewhere in Canada if the government does not “allow her to practise freely.”<\/p>\n “I will unfortunately have no other choice but to leave for another province,” she wrote.<\/p>\n WATCH | Lionel Carmant steps down, will sit as an Independent: Quebec minister, Lionel Carmant, resigns as contention over doctor\u2019s bill continues<\/p>\n The longtime CAQ minister made the announcement alongside Premier Fran\u00e7ois Legault. Lionel Carmant says the past few weeks have been difficult, but that he\u2019s choosing his family.<\/p>\n She said the system is broken and invited Dub\u00e9 to rethink the health-care system as a whole, rather than “blaming individuals.”<\/p>\n The minister did not directly comment on his daughter’s letter in the news conference.<\/p>\n Sending a strong message, says opposition<\/p>\n Public Security Minister Ian Lafreni\u00e8re called Carmant a very good minister, friend and neighbour.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a tough moment to be honest, but I do understand his position,\u201d said Lafreni\u00e8re Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n Marc Tanguay, Quebec Liberal Party health critic, said the letter published by Carmant\u2019s daughter sends a strong message to Legault.<\/p>\n “She\u2019s a super specialist, she has the right to express herself and the fact that she decided to write a letter \u2026 says a lot,” he told reporters, following Carmant\u2019s announcement.\u00a0<\/p>\n “As a father, I can see the stress that it put within the family relationship.”<\/p>\n Qu\u00e9bec Solidaire MNA Manon Mass\u00e9, who recently announced she is stepping back from politics<\/a>, says the government has lost an \u201cexcellent minister.\u201d<\/p>\n “And that makes me sad because we were able to talk with him. So the CAQ, I don’t know where it’s going,” she said.<\/p>\n Before politics, Carmant was a pediatric neurologist<\/a> at CHU Sainte-Justine. He was elected as the member for Taillon in 2018 and served as the junior minister for health and social services from 2018 to 2022. <\/p>\n In his address on Thursday, he said it\u2019s not easy to\u00a0leave behind files he is passionate about.\u00a0<\/p>\n Legault thanked Carmant and said he is “grateful” for what he has accomplished. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Social Services Minister Lionel Carmant\u00a0is leaving his position in the Coalition Avenir Qu\u00e9bec (CAQ) government and says he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-251481","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761882075_88_default.jpg\")
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