Serious question.
Global- How many doctors does Canada have? Feds to fund research to find answer
The federal government has answered years-long calls from doctors and nurses to tally and research the number of health workers in Canada with a $47 million funding announcement.
The money is being divided among research groups that aim to collect and study data on Canada’s health workforce, which has been difficult to gather across provincial health systems.
The largest sum, $22.5 million, is being given to the an arm of the Canadian Institute for Health Information to figure out where gaps are in the workforce.
That’s a lot of money for a couple of dozen phone calls.
Oh, right, it’s the Liberals. Never mind.
yeah, and they will hire a consultant to make the phone calls, thus creating a cost overrun and an inadequate report that will be shelved, thus creating the need to duplicate it all over again, using, of course, the same consultants, but this time it will be a guy with a better bowtie from McKinsey and sons…who said Virginia Woolfe was the only stream of consciousness writer, now, eh, wot?
Sorry.
The government knows how many licenced doctors there are. The consultants won’t be making phone calls but will travel far and wide to devine how many medicine men are scattered among the various tribes. That’s very heady work. The effort will be somewhat akin to searching for the unmarked grave of native kids.
Revenue Canada knows where each and every one is.
VOWG….
Bingo…!!
Did you notice how their approach to any project or problem is always, ALWAYS to award a chunk of money to either a private company or to a nebulous “research organization “, or non-profit group.
The award is always done outside the normal procurement process and without competition or normal oversight.
Nya Pfannerstil (@nyapfanner) on X has uncovered and collated records showing that the Liberal government has given $1.5 Trillion (with a T) to non-profit organizations during their mandate, with the bulk spent after 2020 – most of it to do things that would never be countenanced if submitted to parliamentary debate and sunshine.
and let us not forget the additional 3000 civil servants required to assemble the data in book form
Why would you think they know anything at all?
My dealings with large organizations, business and government, makes me think I’m organized, which I ain’t.
Anticipated conclusion: work/home balance needs to be improved. Look for recommendation for mor part-time working hours without benefit reductions.
Also anticipate more DEI implementations.
I have half a mind to see how much one could get just by emailing the various provincial/territorial ministries and asking for a breakdown and how long the turnaround would be.
most have a freedom of information act. they would readily provide an answer
Wow. Not only is the Canadian Socialized medicine program run stupidly … they have to PAY BIG $$$ to figure out how stupid it is …
Just a different sort of “money-laundering / vote-buying / payoff” operation. “Wealth redistribution” in pollie-muppet terminology; “theft” to the rest of us.
The medical “unions”, for doctors and nurses, might have some pretty good ideas…….
Nope, it’s just another caper from the latest Sheriff of Nottingham; the “reverse” Robbin’ Hood”.
Our nations are being LOOTED by the communists in-charge. Yep. They’re finding ever more creative ways to steal from us … to line their comrades pockets.
Just ask the provincial professional medical associations
In a private system, you don’t need to count. The market will naturally fill the gaps.
Only in a public centrally-planned system does it take $50 million to find the gaps, and then when that work is completed years later, it will already be out of date, which illustrates the knowledge problem of centrally managed systems. The knowledge is so distributed and so vast that no central bureaucracy could ever keep up, by the time they collect the vast sums of info by making inquiries across every community across the country, counting all the hundreds of thousands of employees one-by-one, the knowledge is already out of date. The price/wage supply/demand system of capitalism solves that problem.
$47M is nothing. If Trudeau was really serious it would be $1B with the contract going to the Kielburgers.
$47M is the initial budget. I’m sure it will balloon to at least $150M before the work is done with JT taking his 25% cut off the top.
If I can get the answer earlier than the research groups, can I claim the $45 million? I suspect I can have the answer before they can distribute the dosh among the “research groupies”.
Health care is provincial. The feds should have nothing to do with it. If they need to know, ten calls to the provinces, three to the territories, add together. Should take a couple of days. If you can’t get an answer, publish the province or territory that doesn’t know.
The comment nobbling is so screwed up,that it rejects quoting the second paragraph of the item posted.
This is really stupid.
The money is being divided among research groups that aim to collect and study data on Canada’s health workf*rce, which has been difficult to gather across provincial health systems.”
“The money is being divided among research groups that aim to collect and study data on Canada’s health workf*rce, which has been difficult to gather across provincial health systems.”
Magnificent Urnalism.
Make such a sweeping claim/slander against the people actually responsible for running the decrepid Federally Commanded mess,the Provincial Health Departments..while providing no information at all..
Why is collecting said info difficult?
Who says this is so?
Where does such difficulty exist?
As of when?
What information are they actually asking for?
While pretending to be counting up medical staff?
It would be typical of the overreaching federal parasites to be demanding private and confidential information about patients and medical staff,while protesting that they “Only need this information to accurately count up the helpers”..
And other such BS.
How is Census Canada making out?
Quietly pawing thro your bank records..Cause they can.
Taking bets: will they be smart enough to at least break the numbers down by specialty and whether or not they are still practicing?
There are 656,680 Professional Occupations in Health (NOC 31)
110,235 are classified as physicians and veterinarians (NOC 3110)
42,985 are Pharmacists (NOC31120)
361,160 are classified as Nursing and allied health professionals (NOC313)
Where is my $40 million to read some information that stats canada already has?
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=9810041201
That link can’t be right, your stats aren’t there.
The government also announced that it would give $13 million to the Medical Council of Canada to expand a national physician database of doctors in Canada.
So they can quickly identify and deal with doctors that would do no harm.
Government funded “NGOs” means kick backs to the LPC. What do the thousands of added bureaucrats do?
The multitude of bureaucrats are parasites, and they will grow and multiply, until they kill the host.
Heh,the answer to the headline question..
When your pay check depends on you “not knowing” then longterm employees will never know.
This only amounts to the gov’t spending more of my grandchildren’s money. Every doctor and nurse (these are protected titles) have to be registered/licensed to practice in Canada. The numbers are on a data base.
I checked out the Canadian Institute for Health website and it is all about “Advancing Research Excellence in all its Diversity”, and of course, it includes lots of rainbow colored banners and DEI banter. In addition to that, they provide showy photographs of the “recipients of the 2023 Personnel awards for Indigenous Scholars” and also the “recipients of the 2023 Personnel awards for Black Scholars”. I could find no mention of Personnel awards for White Scholars.
Provided are, links on How to Apply for funding, and Funding Opportunities and Funding Programs, to name a few.
In my opinion this has little to nothing to do with gather Statistics on how many Doctors Canada has, and everything to do with being another Liberal, wealth distribution slush fund paid for with taxpayer dollars.