Événement

Health Care Federalism and Nation-to-Nation Interaction: An Introduction

Mardi, 19 mars, 2019 12:30à14:00
Chancellor Day Hall Salle de conférence Stephen Scott (OCDH 16), 3644 rue Peel, Montreal, QC, H3A 1W9, CA

Le Groupe de recherche en santé et en droit de l’Université McGill vous convie à une conférence midi avec Michael Da Silva, boursier postdoctoral à la Faculté de droit et à l’Institut des politiques sociales et de la santé de l’Université McGill.

Son allocution visera à déterminer si le gouvernement fédéral canadien devrait jouer un rôle accru dans la normalisation de la couverture des soins de santé dans l'ensemble du Canada. Toutefois, si le gouvernement fédéral décide de s'impliquer davantage dans le domaine de la santé, cela pourrait être incompatible avec la reconnaissance des nations sous-constitutionnelles au sein de l'Éta (à savoir le Québec et les nations autochtones) au Canada.

Les places sont limitées: veuillez réserver votre place en écrivant à rghl.law [at] mcgill.ca.

Accrédité pour 1,5 h de formation continue obligatoire pour juristes par un dispensateur reconnu.

Résumé

[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’s 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 ‘national’ 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 conférencier

[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 McGill University. 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.

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