Health Care as Offered by The Supreme Court of Canada

There are two things that I find interesting in the ruling from the Supreme Court of Canada concerning the right to use private health care. The first thing is that we have another case where the courts are making legislation. By ruling that private health care should be available to those who want it in Quebec, the court has basically said to the government that they may not hold Quebec hostage for its federal health care dollars if the provincial government allows private health care.

The second thing is that the ruling is specific to the province of Quebec. The vote on whether this would apply to the rest of Canada was tied 3 to 3.

We have another instance where la belle province gets preferrential treatment.

One other thing that I just noticed ... we don't need more than a hundred MP's in Ottawa, fundamental changes to Canadian law can be given by only six Supreme Court Justices.