‘This process doesn’t work’: Pamela Wallin weighs in on assisted dying review

A special committee of MPs and Senators is in the midst of a now-extended statutory review of Canada’s medical assistance in dying law.

CSG Senator Pamela Wallin, pictured in February 2020, says the public view on assisted death is ‘clear and direct,’ and she finds it ‘distressing that the politicians are being too slow to take this on.’ The Hill Times photograph by Aidan Chamandy

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BY PETER MAZEREEUW

May 9, 2022

The joint parliamentary committee tasked with reviewing Canada’s medically-assisted dying law doesn’t have the time to properly wrestle with the “tough issues” where there is a “clash of views,” says Senator Pamela Wallin.

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