Abstract
emergence and occupational success of Canada's medical profession was critically dependent on government. It was the provincial egislatures, after all, that enacted the licensing laws requested by medical lobbyists in the nineteenth century and also allowed doctors to incorporate self-governing provincial Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons. At the same time, various levels of government offered increasingly generous support for medical education, construction and maintenance of hospitals, and the development of public health programs. State intervention therefore gave doctors a legalized monopoly on provision of medical services, strengthened medicine's occupational autonomy, and improved the status, education, and working conditions of medical practitioners.' Government intervention in the medical-care market was main-
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