Ian Mulgrew: Ottawa's response to medicare challenge is, be afraid

Ottawa has finally responded to the constitutional challenge to B.C.’s restrictions on access to private core health services, insisting they are needed to prevent the inequities of a two-tiered system.
With the B.C. Supreme Court trial soon to celebrate its third anniversary, the federal government presented its position that the country’s unique health care system must be protected by the impugned measures in the provincial Medicare Protection Act.
But the senior government offered