This should have been an easy fight to win. The Legault government was aiming to do something that no previous government of Quebec had been able to achieve: changing doctors’ remuneration regime in order to tie it to their performance. The powerful MDs’ unions would huff, puff and blow. But in the end, doctors being seen as spoiled prima donnas, the public would side with the government.

Then, three weeks ago, the party in power forced the quick adoption of a special act, Bill 2, that put an end to the talks with doctors and forced the new pay system on them. In a matter of days, most Quebecers turned against the government and its previously popular minister of health, Christian Dubé. According to a poll conducted by Léger , 47 per cent of respondents are opposed to the changes brough

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