The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear an appeal from a Vancouver physician who has led a legal challenge over a patient’s right to access private health care.
The Supreme Court’s decision, handed down on April 6, ends the challenge by physician Brian Day, two Vancouver-based private health facilities, and four patients who argued that the British Columbia Medicare Protection Act violated their Charter rights by subjecting them to long wait times for health care in the province’s publicly funded system.
The appellants argued that the long wait times in the publicly funded system breached their rights to life, liberty, and security of the person guaranteed under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms….