Parliament should hit brakes on quick passage of new assisted-dying law

The bill expresses an ableist presumption that lives with disability or chronic illness are intolerable or less worthy. It also ignores the context in which people with disabilities have to make health care decisions.

Justice Minister David Lametti petitioned the court twice to extend the deadline for amending the government's assisted dying law. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY Trudo Lemmens and Leah Krakowitz-Broker

November 18, 2020

To meet the twice-renewed deadline imposed by the Quebec Superior Court in the Truchon case, the federal government is pushing its new medical-assistance-in-dying bill through Parliament before year’s end. They should go bac...

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