I’m in Ontario, and the northern areas of the province (like, anywhere north of Barrie) have been continuously short of doctors for the past forty years. Some slots here for medical residents go unfilled for years at a time, from what I understand—they do have a right to refuse a position they don’t want. And very few of them want to go to, say, Kapuskasing. There is one medical school that obliges graduates to remain in the north for a time, but they simply don’t graduate enough people. Rural voters have more pull in Saskatchewan than northern voters do here, so there’s also little incentive for the government to change things.