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Jump to full article: Edmonton (Alberta) Journal (ca), 2009-11-20
Author: Trish Audette, Edmonton Journal
Intro: Health Minister Ron Liepert suggested a new law allowing the province to recover health costs from convicted criminals will have teeth.
"Let me give you an example, a purely hypothetical example. You have an individual who decides in the middle of the night to break into the Calgary Zoo. He goes one step further and decides he's going to break into the tiger cage and challenge the tiger," Liepert said.
"Guess what happens? The tiger takes on the character, and he's hospitalized for quite some time. Who's paying his hospital bill? All of us as taxpayers. Because some hypothetical individual decided to take on a tiger in the middle of the night."
The health minister made the comments as MLAs ended debate of Bill 48, the Crown's Right of Recovery Act.
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