A former Liberal health minister who resigned from the federal cabinet in 2019, will head an Ontario health care team tasked with improving access to family physicians.
Jane Philpott quit the federal cabinet nearly six years ago saying she had lost confidence in the federal government over the way in which the SNC-Lavalin affair was handled.
She was part of a small group of disgruntled cabinet ministers who either quit or resigned from cabinet at the time.
Philpott takes on her new role in the Ontario Ministry of Health on December 1st.