2025-10-18 from thestarphoenix.com
Colwood, B.C. — a town of 20,000, 12 kilometres west of Victoria — is having its moment in the sun.
Like pretty much every Canadian community, Colwood is short family doctors. Mayor Doug Kobayashi, a former lieutenant-colonel and aeronautical engineer, decided not to wait to let the problem solve itself.
He and his Council went full-bore Field of Dreams: Build it (a clinic), run it (as a municipal facility), and fund it (guarantee full-time family docs $280,000 a year), and they will come.
Colwood gambled that good pay, not having to run a business, work-life balance, and a sweet pension would overcome doctors’ traditional resistance to being employees with a real boss. So far they’re half right. They’re aiming for eight docs and have signed up three.
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