Extension of eligibility to people whose sole underlying condition is a mental illness at issue
Parliamentary committee releases report but makes no recommendations
7,595 Canadians received medically assisted deaths in 2020
The committee is to examine issues related to mature minors, advance requests, mental illness
The bill would expand access to intolerably suffering individuals not approaching the natural end of their lives
2019 ruling struck down MAID only for those whose natural deaths are ‘reasonably foreseeable’
This is one of a number of changes to Bill C-7 proposed by the government
The House of Commons will debate on Tuesday
Canadian Psychiatric Association has denounced the exclusion as discriminatory, stigmatizing
A few Canadians suffering solely from severe, irremediable mental disorders have received assisted deaths
‘Our biggest fear has always been that having a disability would become an acceptable reason for state-provided suicide’
Medical aid in dying was legalized in Quebec in 2014 and then across Canada in June 2016.
