For two years the CCF has been trying to find out how much the BC government has spent fighting to deny our patient plaintiffs’ right to seek care and to shut down the Cambie Surgery Centre. Despite a freedom of information adjudicator ordering the government to comply with our request, the BC government has remained stubborn on the issue and used every legal and administrative tool at their disposal to delay the issue further.
We are now eagerly awaiting a March 28 Judicial Review hearing where the Supreme Court of BC will hopefully make a judgement in favour of taxpayers and those defending healthcare freedom in the Cambie case.
In other news, the BC government has quietly delayed enacting penalties on private clinics and doctors. Though we were successful in getting an injunction recently against these same penalties for surgery clinics, the injunction did not include clinics offering MRI, CT and PET scan imaging. Now they will be spared for at least another year while we continue to defend the right of all BC patients to seek care.