Canadians being left in the dark on changes to assisted death, as court-imposed deadline approaches

Training and oversight of MAID assessors and providers, and the data required for overview, show it to be inconsistent and imprecise. Only three provinces have even rudimentary training programs.
Justice Minister David Lametti is staring down a court-imposed deadline to have legislative amendments passed to the existing assisted-death regime passed before Dec. 18, 2020.
New legislation that will have a tremendous impact on the lives and deaths of Canadians, Bill C-7, is in committee this week. The bill is a response to a Quebec court decision that rendered unconstitutional the clause in the existing assisted suicide legislation requi...

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