In the summer of 2018, BC’s Freedom of Information and Privacy Commissioner ordered the BC government to disclose the total litigation cost spent on the Cambie case between 2009 and 2017.

Despite this order, the province has stalled and blocked the release of the information by filing a judicial review. Last week, at the judicial review, BC government lawyers vigorously opposed letting taxpayers know the total cost, claiming it could somehow reveal the government’s litigation strategy if we knew how much taxpayer money was spent and that the number could be used to embarrass the government!

The judge of the BC Supreme Court that heard the review has reserved judgement, and we expect a decision in the coming weeks. The CCF believes that BC taxpayers should have the right to know how much of their money has been used litigating against patients’ rights.

In other news…

Health policy expert and C.D. Howe scholar Åke Blomqvist had an excellent article published in the Globe and Mail yesterday. The CCF’s fight for patient rights in our healthcare freedom case is often wrongly painted as an attack on public healthcare, and articles like this go a long way in correcting the myths about Canada’s current provincial healthcare systems.

Read the Full article here.