Ontario's health minister is asking the province's doctors if binding arbitration is so important that they are willingto form a public-sector union and disclose their salaries. One of the group's concerns was that the deal didn't include binding arbitration, with the government and OMA instead agreeing to allow a court challenge on it to continue. But with the OMA now saying it wants binding arbitration in place before talks resume, Health Minister Eric Hoskins has sent OMA president Dr. Virginia Walley a charged letter. Hoskins writes that the government is prepared to let the OMA sort out its internal issues, but Ontario doctors have already been without a compensation agreement for two years. But they were also unhappy with the terms of the deal and took the OMA negotiating team to task.

Source: CBC News August 26, 2016 10:07 UTC