In June 2005 the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in a close (4-3) opinion that Quebec’s ban on private insurance duplicating services covered by the public system violates that province’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The case (Chaoulli v. Quebec) was brought by Dr. Jacques Chaoulli, an extreme right-wing physician with close ties to pro-privatization political organizations. In an unusually strongly-worded dissenting opinion, the minority criticized the questionable basis for the case, its overtly political motivation and the phony “experts” brought to testify.
Click here to read PNHP’s statement on the Canadian Supreme Court Decision
