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.
Too often patients are being forced to leave the publicly-funded hospitals or hospices where they have been receiving end-of-life care because those institutions refuse to allow medically-assisted death on their premises.
The feds should move quickly on advance requests for medical assistance in dying, allowing us to set out the circumstances under which we would want to receive MAID in the future.
Ever-increasing partisanship weakens all parties and makes Parliament less effective, eroding democracy. If we don’t have strong parties with clear platforms, our choices are diminished.