I'm not really sure about other parts of the country (health care delivery is a provincial responsibility so beware any "health care in canada is X" take: they

I'm not really sure about other parts of the country (health care delivery is a provincial responsibility so beware any "health care in canada is X" take: they likely really mean Ontario or maybe Quebec or BC), but the part I live in (Alberta, home of #3 on this list) has a family doctor crisis that's more complicated than just yearly pay. It's a combination of: - A government that is outright hostile to health care workers, including fighting a battle against their unions during covid to reduce pay. The health minister famously went to a doctor's home and berated him from the driveway for tweeting something negative about him. Again, during the pandemic. - Some specific changes to the pay schedule for doctors that makes it very difficult for them to spend more than 15 minutes with any given patient without losing out on income. - The introduction a teledoctor system that pays better but most of the people on the other side of it don't live or work in the province. And that's ignoring other kinds of medical workers, where they've done various things to force specialists to take on fewer patients, cut nursing headcounts to the bone, etc. Every medical professional I've interacted with for the last few years (even before the pandemic) has seemed exhausted and on the verge of packing up and leaving.