Safeguards in assisted-dying law create ‘good balance’ between protection, autonomy, Lametti says

With less than a month before Canada’s MAID law must change to comply with a court deadline, Justice Minister David Lametti promises to consider any Senate amendments in ‘good faith.’

Justice Minister David Lametti, pictured Nov. 26, appeared before the Senate Legal Affairs Committee on Feb. 1 to discuss the government’s bill to change Canada's assisted-death law so that a ‘reasonably foreseeable death' is no longer a requirement. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

February 1, 2021

The government has the appropriate safeguards in place to address disability groups' concerns that removing the near-death requirement to Canada's medical-assistance-in-dying law would put vulnerable people at risk, says Justice Minister David Lametti. During a 90-minute hearing on Monday, Mr. Lame...

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