A family medicine clinic in Hudson, Que., west of Montreal, will close citing the implementation of Quebec's controversial Bill 2.

The Hudson Medical Centre serves about 11,000 patients, mainly English speakers, according to Dr. Tara McCarty, a family doctor at the clinic and one of its co-owners.

It is the only bilingual GMF — the French acronym for family doctor group — in the Vaudreuil-Soulanges region, she says.

McCarty said Wednesday that the clinic will be forced to close April 1 after three of the seven doctors practising there decided to leave the province in response to the new legislation.

“It has been a pretty devastating situation in our clinic, and I'm sure in many others,” McCarty said, adding that the law pressures doctors into giving “unsafe care to our patients.”

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