What many Canadians don’t know is that Ms. Holmes has a lawsuit against the Ontario government, which has not been filed to recoup 100 thousand dollars for her 2005 trips to the Mayo clinics to remove a Rathke’s Cleft cyst.,
The suit is also a challenge to single tier care and the Canadian health system. She is one of two plaintiffs, the handlers behind it are The Canadian Constitution Federation headed by John Carpay.
Ontario Superior Court September 2007 (.pdf)

After doing the commercial and a talk show circuit in the US Shona Holmes publicist told CBC News, she was now declining interviews.

Who is the Canadian group Shona Holmes has partnered with to challenge Canadian health care?
The Canadian Constitution Federation is a registered charity, featured in a 2007 article in The Toronto Star: Keeping some advocacy groups out of court
May 11, 2009 Terrible Depths

In this morning’s Globe and Mail, there’s an op-ed by John Carpay, the executive director of the Canadian Constitution Foundation, in which he argues that “Quebec’s parents have lost the freedom to choose religious education.” Carpay’s reasoning? The provincial government has mandated a new course called “Ethics and Religious Culture,” to be taught in all public and private schools. Carpay’s foundation is assisting parents in a court challenge of the new course, arguing that it has stripped away their previous power to choose with their children would receive “Catholic, Protestant, or non-religious moral instruction.”…

Oddly enough, the “religious” objection to the new course is probably criticizing what the drafters in the education ministry thought was its greatest strength: that it is “nebulous” and inconclusive in moral instruction, offering great leeway for schools to structure their presentation and for students to make up their own minds. The other criticism – that it is “superficial and very limited” – is, well, pretty much what you’d expect from any high school-level survey course. Be serious; this isn’t grad school here. Anyway, the combination of limited and vague presentation, according to Carpay, makes the curriculum “anti-religious.”…

Carpay is an old Reform Party candidate who moved over to the Alberta branch of the Canadian Taxpayer Federation (CTF provincial directors are, more often than not, retired conservative politicians and party staffers) and then took up the reins at the Canadian Constitution Foundation a couple of years ago. Aside from the Foundation, you can find also his musings at right-wing hangouts like the Frontier Centre, the Fraser Institute, the Canada Family Action Coalition, and the Manning Centre’s journal, C2C. (That Carpay’s columns, which explicitly identify him as speaking for the Constitution Foundation, would be reproduced in CFAC newsletters seems like it might be a little bit at odds with the Foundation’s formal position that it has no opinion on abortion per se, but whatever.)

The Foundation was founded in 2002 by John Weston, a Conservative MP in Vancouver – its first task was to oppose the Nisga’a Treaty, but it subsequently branched out to oppose public healthcare…

The Constitution Foundation is also backed by another pro-corporate “charity,” the Weston Foundation

Used by permission. 2009 Terrible Depths

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