Courts moving Canada towards granting mentally ill access to assisted dying, says Lametti

Conservatives panned the Senate for suggesting a ‘radical’ amendment to assisted death, while Justice Minister David Lametti said the Red Chamber is finally doing its job.

‘It is my view that prohibiting MAID for persons suffering solely from mental illness is an option that is open to the government and is consistent with the Charter,’ Justice Minister David Lametti told Senators on Feb. 1. Now, his bill makes this group eligible for assisted death, in two years.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

March 11, 2021

Ahead of a House vote passing the expanded assisted dying legislation, Justice Minister David Lametti says Canada was “always” moving in the “direction” of including mental illness as a sole underlying condition for eligibility. On Thursday evening, the House of Commons passed Bill C-7, in ...

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