2026-05-06 from healthcoalition.ca
Legal experts in the health care field have completed a thorough examination of Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s Bill 11 health care law and found it to be in clear violation of the federal Canada Health Act.
Bill 11 is, “the most extensive privatization of payment for medically necessary services in Canada since the Canada Health Act was enacted in 1984,” writes Emma Phillips of Goldblatt Partners LLP.
“The Canada Health Act embodies the fundamental value that medical services should be allocated on the basis of need, not ability to pay,” she writes. “Facilitating a two-tier regime introducing private payment for medically required services which in turn can lead to preferential access is directly contrary to the core requirements, criteria and principles of the Canada Health Act.”
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