This is entirely because of the private sector... the two largest lab companies, Dynacare and LifeLabs, have a duopoly on the lab testing market (at least in On

This is entirely because of the private sector... the two largest lab companies, Dynacare and LifeLabs, have a duopoly on the lab testing market (at least in Ontario). They may have received some incentives to do this but afaik there was no big policy objective behind it.