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JUN
2023
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2023
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The 2022 Elections and MAiD by Advance Medical Requests
The Bill that no party wants to talk about
September 21, 2022
It is difficult to predict the first course of action of the government that will be elected on October 3. However, we know that most parties have promised to reintroduce Bill 38 on medical aid in dying ...
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SEP
2022
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SEP
2022
Following is a letter written by Psychiatrist (and member of the Physicians’ Alliance), Dr. Louis Morissette to Policy Options in response to a recently published article co-authored by Dr. Mona Gupta.
The letter has been refused for publication.
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MAR
2022
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MAR
2022
August 26th, 2021,
We thank you for the opportunity to share our experience and our views with you, through our written brief and our oral testimony and discussion with you on August 12, 2021.
We write now to expand on two important questions that arose during the discussion following our testimony.
The situation in Quebec health care under the current law
We had the impression that some Commission members were surprised and troubled by our presentation of the situation in Quebec health care under ...
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AUG
2021
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AUG
2021
You have probably been aware of the BC Government’s order for the Delta Hospice to start providing MAiD on-site.
The hospice has pointed out to the government that it would be in violation of the Societies Act if it provided MAiD. The Societies Act says that the Delta Hospice must act within its Charter and that Charter requires the hospice to help people ‘live fully”
The Hospice has also offered ...
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JAN
2020
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JAN
2020
“Things are what they are”, runs traditional wisdom. True or false. Right or wrong.
But that was yesterday. Now, apparently, things are whatever you would like them to be:
- Jean Truchon and Nicole Gladu, for instance, believe that they should have access to euthanasia because of their disabilities, even though they are in no way near the “end of life” as stipulated by the law.
- The euthanasia lobby agreed enthusiastically with this claim, and provided the financial and legal resources required to mount ...
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OCT
2019
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OCT
2019
IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 9th, 2019
Physicians Urge Attorney General of Canada to Appeal Quebec Medical Assistance in Dying Decision
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OCT
2019
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OCT
2019
For a rapidly growing number of decision-makers and opinion makers, this would be the implicit message of opponents of assisted suicide and euthanasia (i.e. medical aid in dying, MAiD). If I understand this new definition of humanism correctly, allowing a person to commit suicide on their own is cruelty, so it must be done through an expert in the field, professionally. According to this reasoning, any request to die should indeed be taken care of by the medical profession (here ...
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SEP
2019
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SEP
2019
Open letter to Mme Véronique Hivon
Mme Hivon:
You label as « ideology » the decision made by the McGill University Health Centre to not euthanize patients on the palliative care ward.
“The patients at the end of life are the ones who should have their rights respected and be at the centre of the organization of care”, you say. If that is what you really believe, where were you when the number of palliative care beds at the MUHC was reduced for budgetary reasons? ...
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2016