Article content continuedSelley concludes his commentary by referring to the cuts to emergency out-of-country health coverage as “logical.” The fact is, by increasing the cost of private insurance, the Ontario government was making it more expensive for travellers to be adequately covered for their trips abroad. If travel medical insurance prices become prohibitive, it would prevent a significant number of seniors from being able to travel. In turn, this would place an even heavier burden on an already strained medical system in Ontario. If retired Ontarians choose not to travel, and they encounter a medical emergency, the Ontario government would shoulder 100 per cent of the costs of medical services. But its notion of originalism was at odds with that of the Fathers of Confederation, who had conceived of the provinces as junior governments in our foundational BNA Act.

Source: National Post October 09, 2020 22:18 UTC