Quebec's new bonus incentive draws rural technologists to bigger cities

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Josey Bouchard, a spokesperson for Friends of the Pontiac, a grassroots group from Quebec says the situation is 'completely disheartening.'

Rural western Quebec health care workers are applying for jobs in big cities — a trend some observers say is the unfortunate but predictable consequence of a recently-enacted bonus system.Josey Bouchard, a spokesperson for Friends of the Pontiac, a grassroots group from Quebec says the situation is "completely disheartening.

Seven of those nine workers are staff in Shawville and Wakefield where the bonuses are not being offered.

 

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