Feds face first test in commitment to apply disability lens to decisions

Applying a disability lens doesn’t mean the obliteration of the existing safeguards of the medical assistance in dying legislation. It means addressing the lack of community supports and palliative care resources for disabled people and other vulnerable Canadians.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government declined to appeal the Quebec Supreme Court ruling on the medical assistance in dying legislation, which struck down the prerequisite for a 'natural, reasonably foreseeable death.'The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DAVID ROCHE AND AL ETMANSKI

November 15, 2019

The last-minute Liberal election commitment to apply a disability ...

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