The Supreme Court of Canada dismissed an appeal from a Montreal doctor arguing that Quebec’s allocation plan for family physicians and the Health Minister’s methods were invalid and hurt Montreal specifically.
Dr. Mark Roper argued that Montreal is at a disadvantage compared to other regions of Quebec because the city has the worst registration rate with a family doctor and that Minister Christian Dube deprives the metropolis of family doctors in favour of other regions.
Roper’s lawyer Julius Grey argued that the system violated the Canadian and Quebec charters of rights and freedoms.
Quebec Superior Court Justice Dominique Poulin ruled in 2022 that “there was no basis to conclude that the minister’s decision was unreasonable, nor was there any basis to find that there had been breaches under either of the Charters,” according to the SCC ruling.
The court denied the injunction and that ruling was upheld by the Quebec Court of Appeal in 2023 and now the Supreme Court of Canada.
The Supreme Court does not give a reason for dismissing cases.