Sea Cadets and Justice Anne Mactavish

Justice Anne Mactavish: Justice Anne Mactavish decision tells of a diabetic who survives on donated insulin, a man who nearly lost his eyesight because he couldn't afford surgery and a 14-year-old who couldn't join her Sea Cadets group on a camping trip because she didn't have a health card, according to Times Colonist. Mactavish referred often to these affidavits in her lengthy ruling and Friday Federal Court decision on refugee health care came with stories of fear and desperation and "the extreme human cost" of the federal government crackdown. The stories were contained in affidavits filed as part of an effort to overturn the federal government two-year-old decision to severely limit health coverage for failed refugee claimants and people from countries deemed to be safe. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.