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A private radiology clinic in Surrey has joined a bid for an injunction to stop the B.C. government from activating legislation on Oct. 1 to impose penalties on doctors and private clinics that charge patients fees for expedited treatment.

There are about 70 private surgery and radiology clinics in B.C. that depend on private-paying patients.

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Surrey MRI is the latest private clinic to join the lawsuit that seeks to prevent the NDP government from activating changes to the Medicare Protection Act.

The government has yet to file a response to the request for an injunction.

Dr. Brian Day’s Cambie Surgery Corp. is the lead plaintiff in both the injunction and the slow-moving constitutional challenge to medicare laws. He argues the government should wait for the end of the trial over the constitutionality of provincial and federal laws restricting private health care before it imposes the new penalties.