NAFTA Investment and Services Disciplines and Bill 11: Proposals By Alberta to Privatize the Delivery of Certain Insured Health Care Services

Steven Shrybman, 2000

In March 2000, Alberta introduced Bill 11, the Health Care Protection Act. Bill 11 was the Alberta government's third attempt to pass legislation that would provide a formal legal gramework for privatizing the delivery of certain insured sergical services.

Steven Shrybman prepared a legal opinion regarding the potential impact of the services and investment provisions of the North American Free Trade Agreement on Alberta's plans to contract with for-profit health care companies to deliver the insured surgical services.