Public Health Care Redux

What the Canadian people saw for the first time last week in the infamous BCCA Day decision was the FINE PRINT of Canadian Public Health Care. Imagine if any Canadian politician spelled it out quite that way in a campaign: "We will provide you with the Health Care you need to live in return for your tax dollars UNLESS we can deprive you of it 'in accordance with the Principles of Fundamental Justice'". Their career would be at an end. Oh, and don't forget about the beautiful National Unity angle involved in this sage verdict -

"Not Applicable in the Province of Quebec and every other civilized jurisdiction in the World." Remember, when they tell you that preserving our single-provider Health Care System is all about preventing the advent of a "two tier" system, just say,"It's already here thanks to the Day Case!" (unless our equally politicized, elite govt-suckling and left wing supreme court somehow sees the intellectual irony of it all and, before killing themselves from their own confusion, rule in favour of the Plaintiffs)

For, the BC Appeals decision would make sense if we were allowed to do what every other country in the World allows its people to do - buy health insurance. Then the Court could have plausibly said that at least one principle of fundamental justice in real life - that you should pay the piper if you called the tune of leaving yourself uninsured and relied on the promise of free public health care to be fulfilled - can be used to deprive you of compensation or specific performance to restore your life, liberty and security of the person rights. But of course the private insurance option has been foreclosed to Canadians BY LAW for almost 40 years and so...Until that changes, Governments throughout Canada MUST pay, one way or the other, for the promise of giving you the health care you need NOW!

If the SCC upholds this execrable decision, then it will become apparent that the Weimar Republic wheeze, that was supposed to pass as a "Bill of Rights" for HUMANS and not Governments, in 1982, is a pointless load of drivel that was designed to protect our rights only at the convenience of Government of the State, for the State and by the State. We will have declared our full independence from Britain only to become slaves to and dependent on our own governments'  caprice.