MAID and mental illness: will the committee kick it down the road again, or under the bus?

Hopefully, the majority of the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying will find the courage to recognize the rightful choice of those few Canadians who are suffering intolerably from a mental illness despite years of treatment.

Conservative Senator Yonah Martin, left, and Liberal MP Marcus Powlowski co-chair the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying.The Hill Times photographs by Tessie Sanci and Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SHERRY MORAN

April 22, 2026

The Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying was recently re-established "to undertake a comprehensive review relating to the eligibility of persons whose sole underlying medical condition is a mental illness to receive medical assistance in dying." Mental ...

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