Senate votes down Bill C-14 amendment in debate over medically assisted death

Cracks began showing Thursday night in Senate consensus over changes to the government’s controversial medically-assisted death bill.

Senate Conservative Leader Claude Carignan, pictured in this file photo on Parliament Hill. The Hill Times photograph by Steve Gerecke

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BY TIM NAUMETZ

June 10, 2016

PARLIAMENT HILL—Cracks began showing Thursday in Senate consensus over changes to the government’s medically assisted death bill when a slim majority defeated a key amendment proposed by Senate Conservative leader Claude Carignan intended to add safeguards—after the Senate earlier amended the ...

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