Assisted-dying bill fails test of human compassion: Hébert

The government may fulfil the minimalist duty of avoiding a national legal void, but it’s a far cry from what parliamentarians recommended.
The bill sponsored by Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould, right, lacks the proactive rights bias that the prime minister so often boasts about, says Chantal Hébert.
MONTREAL—A Conservative government could have written the Liberal assisted-dying legislation introduced last week in the House of Commons. It reads like a bill Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould found in the bottom drawer of her Tory predecessor’s desk. The bill barely meets the threshold of...

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