Committee testimony about PSG Senator Julie Miville-Dechêne’s bill highlighted that Canada must do better in protecting children from online pornography alongside other countries.
The expansion of medical assisted death to people with mental illness is set to come into effect in March 2027. A recent UN committee report says it’s ‘extremely concerned’ about Canada’s planned broadening of the law.
Each of Canada’s expansion to assisted dying laws includes a subtle implication that certain lives are not worth living.
Mental health experts’ testimony to the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying not only suggests we are not ready for the March 2024 deadline, but it also raises the question of whether we ever could or should be.
The safeguards around MAID will not protect all vulnerable Canadians, so the government should cancel MAID for mental illness before it comes into effect next March.