This isn't just a loss for the private, for-profits who attacked Canada's Medicare. It's a 3000 paragraph massacre by the judge who ruled against them on every single argument, in the least appealable way possible. Medicare is safe, safe, SAFE after this. https://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-supreme-court-rules-against-legalizing-private-health-care-following-decade-long-battle-1.5099737

Here's the pearl, the Holy Grail, the judge's killer finding of fact that wrecks any chance of a successful appeal:

And where the lawyer for the plaintiffs, Peter Gall, QC, made a mess of it, and made a rotten case worse through his conduct.

Even funnier, the public face of this effort, Dr. Brian Day, who styled himself as a crusading hero, crookedly meddled with his witnesses, got caught, and torpedoed all their evidence. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

This case now becomes the model of how to waste millions of dollars on a complex Charter lawsuit, because the evidence was against you, your lawyer was boneheaded, and you tainted your own witnesses. Never seen anything like it.

A shout-out of thanks to the judge. Procedurally this was a horrendously protracted trial, just Dickensian, because the lawyers for the plaintiffs behaved (IMO) in a sloppy and obtuse way. Mr. Justice Steeves endured that. It cannot have been easy and he deserves a holiday.

So the right-wing funders of this case promise an appeal, and claim they’ll win because 75,000 patients died on waiting lists.

Just one problem: in court they couldn’t prove even one person died!

Liars can’t win an appeal by offering “alternative facts”.
https://mailchi.mp/theccf/canadian-constitution-foundation-looking-forward-toappeal-of-trial-decision-in-cambie-litigation