More than 90 disability rights and mental health groups urge feds to stop MAID expansion

Inclusion Canada and other groups have written to the prime minister, and to the health and justice ministers to discourage widening MAID's criteria to people with mental illness before a joint committee publishes its report on the issue. Dying With Dignity Canada chair Daphne Gilbert, who supports the expansion, says she doesn't think Ottawa will move ahead.
In a letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney, left, Health Minister Marjorie Michel, and Justice Minister Sean Fraser, advocates are calling on the government to make a final decision not go ahead with MAID specifically for mental illness next year.

A collective of more than 90 disability rights and mental health organizations are calling on the federal government to take medical assistance in dying specifically for mental illness “off the table” in a letter addressed to Prime Minister Mark Carney, Health Minister M...

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