Having had a taste of independence, Senators will likely crave more

The legislative discussion over Bill C-14 is over but the debate over the role of a more independent Senate in the larger parliamentary scheme of things has only just begun.

Though he was ultimately unsuccessful, independent Liberal Senator Serge Joyal fought to scrap Bill C-14's proviso that a person be within reasonably foreseeable natural death in order to access assisted dying.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY CHANTAL HÉBERT

June 22, 2016

MONTREAL—In the end, the Senate battle over medically assisted suicide ended not with a bang but with a whimper. On Friday, the Upper House reluctantly deferred to the will of the House of Commons on the issue of medically assisted death by a margin of 44 to 28. The result was not even close. Ca...

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