OTTAWA, July 15, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Canada’s unions are celebrating in the present day’s choice from the BC Court of Appeal in the Cambie Surgeries Corporation (CSC) case. Protecting and strengthening our public well being care system is essential, particularly with the present disaster in well being care throughout our nation. Today’s choice by the court docket upholds the BC Supreme Court’s September 2020 choice that safeguarded the important thing rules of public well being care.
“For years, Dr. Brian Day and his well-financed powerful allies have used everything in their arsenal to try to erode key tenets of our universal health care system and threaten universal and equal access health care in our country,” stated Bea Bruske, President of the Canadian Labour Congress. “Thank you to the many organizations and activists who worked so hard for this victory. Your work has been critical in defending our universal health care system.”
The BC Court of Appeal choice comes following the sooner court docket choice in the Cambie case which put Canada’s public medicare system on trial and threatened the precept of common and equal entry to well being care.
“The push for profit-driven care in this country was delivered another significant blow today. But we know the fight isn’t over. While we expect this case will continue to the Supreme Court and Canada’s unions stand ready to defend our universal, single-payer health care system,” continued Bruske. “Repairing and strengthening the public health care system will take the combined efforts by all levels of government. Canada’s Premiers have called for a First Ministers’ Meeting on the topic of health care in Canada and Canada’s unions are calling on our political leaders to improve our health care system for everyone, not just for the people with the ability to pay.”
Bruske added that you will need to do not forget that the 2020 choice by the BC Supreme Court, at over 800 pages, was one of the vital complete verdicts in BC Supreme court docket historical past.
“Canadian courts and citizens have already ruled on this issue. Canadians do not want us to usher in a profit-driven, multi-payer health care system. If the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us anything – it is precisely how critical our universal, equally accessible health care system is. Now is the time to strengthen it”
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