Canada’s highest court will not hear an appeal from a Vancouver-based physician who has been challenging the health-care system over the right to access private care.
The Supreme Court of Canada’s decision Thursday ends Dr. Brian Day’s 14-year legal battle to allow patients access to private care when the public system isn’t able to offer timely care.
Day, owner of the Cambie Surgery Centre in Vancouver, claimed that prolonged wait times for medical procedures violated two Charter rights, including the right to life, liberty and security of the person.
“In a way, it’s a very sad day for Canadians,” Day told CBC News after the decision was released Thursday
