Good for them.
Looks like Canada's Supreme Court sometimes makes more sense than ours...
The begnning of the end for siocialized medicine in this communist "Utopia"!! Damn time!
"But what he wants is the option to go outside the public system if the waiting times are too long."
amazing statement....socialized medicine/government run health care isn't to blame it's those dang waiting times! waiting times that are too long for care that is crappy.
under Hilary's plan going outside the "public system" would have been illegal punishable with $100,000 fines for the doctors and mandatory jail time.
HMMMM.....maybe we need to do something similar here....take Medicare to the Supreme Court for not allowing individuals to pursue care "outside of the socialized system"......
Posted on 11/20/2003 3:15:45 AM EST by Lancey Howard
November 19, 2003 -- DAN Aykroyd is no fan of the bureaucratic bungling and cut-rate care of socialized medicine. "One place you don't want to get sick is Quebec," the Canadian actor advised us after a screening of Denys Arcand's "The Barbarian Invasions." "It's all socialized. Believe me, you don't want to go to a hospital there.
From this I gather that the plaintiff, George Zeliotis, is your typical socialist scumbag, a hypocrite, and he is actually no diffferent than an American Democrat. Socialism is good for the ignorant masses but not for me.
This is interesting. The federal court has the power to enforce provincial constitutions?
Zeliotis spent more than a year in pain, waiting for a hip replacement in 1997. He finally got a new hip but says he should have had the right to pay earlier for the surgery himself, even though it's illegal to pay for health services covered by medicare.
He and Chaoulli argued that spending months waiting for surgery amounts to a violation of their constitutional rights to life, liberty and security of the person.
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He's right. Government monopoly on healthcare is always negative and tyranical.
http://www.neoperspectives.com/governmenthealth.htm
This ruling reinforces the division of powers, as health care is a provincial power. This could impact all provinces and the Canada Health Act. We may see a small role back of Socialism in this country.
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/06/09/newscoc-health050609.html
"In its ruling Thursday, the court said the provincial policy violates the Quebec charter. But they split 3 to 3 on whether it violated the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, meaning there is no immediate impact on the Canadian health-care system as a whole."
What kind of ruling could say some Canadians are more equal than others>
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
Excellent post. A major victory for freedom in Canada, a nation with weak civil liberties in many ways.
A nice kick in the balls for the socialists and Marxists in Canada.
This is a wonderful development for two reasons.
First, it might actually lead my fellow Canadians to have a reasonable debate on health care. For far too long, our medicare system has been elevated almost to the status of a state religion. Despite numerous studies and commissions on health care, and several elections at both the provincial and federal level being fought on health care issues; there has been no real, honest debate. Supporters of the status quo accuse anyone criticizing the system of supporting "American-style" health care. The fact that even "progressive" European nations all have mixed public/private health care is left out of the debate. Perhaps now Canadians will actually engage in a real, and possibly productive debate about the issue.
Second, it was the Supreme Court of Canada, in an instance of judicial activism that brought down this decision. Left-wingers, and "social progressives" have staunchly defended judicial activism since the advent of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms gave our Supreme Court much the same power as the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down legislation it deems "unconstitutional". Now, the public program most sacred (literally) to the left has been attacked by the infalliable Supremes. I imagine that heads must be exploding, trying to reconcile these facts. Perhaps now, we Canadians can also have a reasonable debate about judical activism.