MAiD report fails to provide meaningful guidance

The Expert Panel on MAiD and Mental Illness has it wrong on both MAiD and mental illness. At best, the panel is out of touch with reality and is blinded by its own biases. At worse, it is misleading the Canadian public on an issue of moral significance not seen since the de facto abolition of the death penalty in 1963.

On May 13, 2022, Canada’s Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos and Justice Minister David Lametti tabled the final report of the Expert Panel on Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) and Mental Illness in Parliament, but Sephora Tang and Dylan McGuinty say the report falls short. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SEPHORA TANG AND DYLAN MCGUINTY

May 23, 2022

On May 13, 2022, Canada’s ministers of health and justice tabled the final report of the Expert Panel on Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) and Mental Illness in Parliament. Tasked with giving the federal government recommendations to pass legislation that would provide MAiD to non-dying people su...

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