Ontario and doctors agree.TORONTO Toronto (tərŏn`tō), city (1998 est pop. 2,400,000), provincial capital, S Ont., Canada, on Lake Ontario. Toronto is the largest city in Canada and since the 1970s has been one of the fastest-changing cities in North America, experiencing -- The Ontario government and the Ontario Medical Association The Ontario Medical Association is a professional organization for physicians in Ontario, Canada founded in 1880. It represents and, to a certain degree, governs approximately 24,000 physicians in Ontario. have come to an agreement after a year of negotiations. The 24,000 doctors in the province will receive more than $2.0 billion over four years in payments and tax benefits from the province. The agreement includes the following: * raises of 2.5 per cent for family doctors and 2 per cent for specialists, retroactive Having reference to things that happened in the past, prior to the occurrence of the act in question. A retroactive or retrospective law is one that takes away or impairs vested rights acquired under existing laws, creates new obligations, imposes new duties, or attaches a to last April 2004; * an end to billing caps of $455,000 a year, starting in April 2005. * the right for doctors to incorporate fully. The ability enables physicians to pay corporate tax rates that are lower than personal tax rates and to split income with family members by enabling them to become shareholders of a professional corporation. Conservative health critic John Baird John Baird can refer to several people:
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