Sanis Health, Sandoz Canada and McKeeson Canada, plus Shoppers Drug Mart, want the high court to examine two lower-court decisions that confirmed B.C.'s right to pass legislation in 2018 that would allow recovery of opioid-related health-care costs from companies.
Since then, Sanis, Sandoz, McKeeson and Shoppers Drug Mart have lost cases in the B.C. Supreme Court and B.C. Court of Appeal as they argued Section 11 oversteps provincial authority and violated the constitution. "I'm really proud of the victories we're had so far and we'll continue the challenge," Sharma said at the legislature. "We are doing everything we can to recover from those companies that are responsible, and that will mean also meeting them in court at the Supreme Court level."