The F\u00e9d\u00e9ration des m\u00e9decins omnipraticiens du Qu\u00e9bec (FMOQ) and Quebec government will resume negotiations \u2013 after the family doctor\u2019s federation walked away from the table Thursday morning.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe negotiators have all the authority they need to find a solution to this crisis,\u201d said Dr. Marc-Andr\u00e9 Amyot, president of the FMOQ.<\/p>\n
On Friday afternoon, Dr. Amyot met once again with Premier Fran\u00e7ois Legault after the premier called him the day before to get together and see how they could find a path forward\u00a0to restart talks.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a productive meeting, a good meeting. It allowed us to reiterate what we agreed on last week, and I am now confident that the messages will be properly conveyed at the negotiating table,\u201d explained Dr. Amyot. \u201cWe are starting intensive negotiations tonight and will continue throughout the weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dr. Amyot wouldn\u2019t elaborate more on the meeting \u2013 or on what caused the rupture Thursday. But added that he \u201ctrusts the Premier.\u201d<\/p>\n
The talks are aimed to improve the reform of the remuneration system \u2013 known as Bill 2.<\/p>\n
The law will apply on Jan. 1, 2026, if no compromise is found. \u00a0<\/p>\n
The Premier also met withDr. Vincent Oliva, president of the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration des m\u00e9decins sp\u00e9cialistes du Qu\u00e9bec (FMSQ), late Friday afternoon. And just before 6 p.m. Dr. Oliva emerged from the meeting, saying it too was productive \u2013 but he needs to bring back to his members what was discussed, before they see if their federation will resume talks.<\/p>\n
Talks with the FMSQ came to a halt in October, before Bill 2 was pushed through. The Legault government had presented a fourth offer to the specialists, which was rejected the same day, with the federation calling it a \u201cdeclaration of war.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The F\u00e9d\u00e9ration des m\u00e9decins omnipraticiens du Qu\u00e9bec (FMOQ) and Quebec government will resume negotiations \u2013 after the family…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-329336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329336","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=329336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}