Law allowing for medical assistance in dying needs to be changed as soon as possible

It’s lacking in one key area—allowing preconditions to be set up prior to one’s health deteriorating to the point that you no longer qualify for MAID even though you want to end your life.

Minister of Justice David Lametti, pictured on July 25, 2019, at the House Justice Committee, has said he will table new legislation in February amending the criteria for Canadians to have medical assistance in dying.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY PIERRE LEBLANC

February 3, 2020

The law allowing for medical assistance in dying needs to be changed as soon as possible. Since 2016, MAID has now been available to Canadians, with more than 7,000 Canadians having taken advantage of this medical procedure to end their lives, on their own terms and wi...

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