A private medical clinic that launched an unsuccessful constitutional challenge of Canada’s public health-care system must pay the B.C. government’s legal costs, after what a judge calls a “gruelling marathon” of a case.
Cambie Surgeries Corp. — owned by private health-care advocate Dr. Brian Day — launched a lawsuit back in 2009. It claimed B.C.’s Medicare Protection Act was unconstitutionally preventing people from getting private health care when the public system was unable to provide it.
The B.C. Supreme Court, the B.C. Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada all shot down the private surgery clinic’s case, but the issue of trial costs was left in the air.
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B.C. Supreme Court Justice Jennifer Lynn Whately ruled Monday that Cambie Surgeries …