Impoverished Canadians accessing MAiD victims of ‘systemic coercion,’ say disability advocates

Parliamentarians were told they did not properly consult the disabled community, and urged to pause expansion to persons with mental illnesses as sole underlying condition in 2023.

Conservative MPs Michael Barrett, right, and Michael Cooper at a May 10, 2022, press conference with families who have been affected by the medical assistance in dying program. Cooper and Barrett are calling for an update to the legislation surrounding C-7.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY STUART BENSON

May 18, 2022

Members of the special joint committee examining Canada’s assisted dying legislation were urged to halt the 2023 expansion of access to those suffering solely from mental illness until the current safeguards can be fixed. “T...

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