With reference to the locum licence, the Society of Rural Physicians has long lobbied for a mechanism for locum licence. A rural physician's best replacement is another rural physician, and it's not true that every community is in crisis across the country at the same time. For physicians a change is often as good as a holiday, and many are very interested in seeing other parts of the country, but when it involves buying a licence for an entire year.... For me to cross over to Renfrew to do a locum 20 kilometres away would be a logistical nightmare.
Hopefully AIT is lowering the interprovincial barriers. One aspect of it that could be looked at specifically is a mechanism to allow locum licences and some organization to manage it.