Decision ends 14-year legal battle that pitted patient autonomy against the principle that health care should be taxpayer-funded and provided on an equal basis to Canadians
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The B.C. Court of Appeal has an unenviable job parsing the 880-page decision involving the constitutionality of provisions in the Medicare Protection Act restricting private health care.
And both senior governments exacerbated it by continuing to muddy the waters during last week’s appeal as they did throughout the marathon 198-day trial conducted by B.C. Supreme Court Justice John Steeves.
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Since 2009 when proceedings started which tells you how much politicking and busy-work has occurred this case has been treated as a time-bomb that the two governments want defused by any means necessary.