Health Care Federalism and Nation-to-Nation Interaction: An Introduction
Le Groupe de recherche en sant茅 et en droit de l鈥橴niversit茅 缅北强奸 vous convie 脿 une conf茅rence midi avec Michael Da Silva, boursier postdoctoral 脿 la 贵补肠耻濒迟茅 de droit et 脿 l鈥橧nstitut des politiques sociales et de la sant茅 de l鈥橴niversit茅 缅北强奸.
Son allocution visera 脿 d茅terminer si le gouvernement f茅d茅ral canadien devrait jouer un r么le accru dans la normalisation de la couverture des soins de sant茅 dans l'ensemble du Canada. Toutefois, si le gouvernement f茅d茅ral d茅cide de s'impliquer davantage dans le domaine de la sant茅, cela pourrait 锚tre incompatible avec la reconnaissance des nations sous-constitutionnelles au sein de l'脡ta (脿 savoir le Qu茅bec et les nations autochtones) au Canada.
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搁茅蝉耻尘茅
[En anglais seulement] Primary provincial responsibility over health care leads to inconsistent health care coverage across the provinces and sub-optimal coverage in many provinces. The federal government should accordingly use its available powers to standardize health care coverage across Canada. Doing so would improve health care justice and could increase Canada's realization of its health-related international human rights obligations. Yet an increased federal role in health care may be inconsistent with recognition of sub-constitutional nations-within-nations (viz., Quebec and Indigenous nations) in Canada and the increased decision-making for such nations that recognition could entail. Canada recognizes nations within the nation of Canada (at least sub-constitutionally). Should these sub-constitutional nations constrain the federal government鈥檚 ability to take an increased role in health care regulation in Canada? This talk introduces the general problem raised by the conjunction of the need for an increased federal role and sub-constitutional nations. It then offers some tentative thoughts on how to resolve the attendant issues: while there is at least a prima facie case that 鈥榥ational鈥� status should have some normative weight and recognized nations-within-a-nation should have an increased role in decision-making about social goods like health care, this prima facie case need not completely undermine increased federal action in the field.
Le conf茅rencier
[En anglais seulement] Michael Da Silva is a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Law and Institute for Health and Social Policy at 缅北强奸. He completed his doctorate at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, where he was a CIHR Vanier Canada Graduate Scholar. His numerous publications include works in health law, ethics, and philosophy of law.
