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B.C. Minister of Health Shirley Bond pledged her government’s support to maintaining public health care in the province, following a landmark Supreme Court ruling on private health care in Quebec last week.
On June 9 the Supreme Court ruled in favour of Jacques Chaoulli, a Quebec resident who challenged that province’s legislation prohibiting people from paying for private health care services. Chaoulli’s challenge came after he was forced to wait months for knee replacement surgery in the mid-1990s.
Bond said the ruling will have no immediate effect on B.C. but her ministry will be examining the potential affect on the future of health care in the province.