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Euthanasia is a societal issue, not medical, and it is for doctors to kill, writes Dr. Martin Labrie and Dr. Jessica Simon in a letter published in the Calgary Herald on June 20.

Both palliative care physicians, the authors argue that discussions about euthanasia are based on several beliefs, often contradicted by experience, and yet presented as universally accepted facts.

They also say that doctors, who have not been trained to kill, are not currently better equipped than other professionals to ...

Dr. Dominique Garrel, tenured Professor in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Montreal, restores the meaning of words in the debate on euthanasia, in a text published in La Presse, print version, on June 11:

Killing is killing. 

For the proponents of the law on end of life care, these words take the meaning that they want. We heard Mrs Hivon often explain that medical aid in dying fundamentally differs from euthanasia, as the latter is done against an individual’s desire. In a ...

Four Quebec residences, including Maison
Michel Sarrazin (first of its kind in Canada), have so far officially
said they would not practice “medical aid in dying”.

The other three, which consist of the West Island Palliative Care Residence in
Montreal, La Maison Au Diapason in Bromont, and Soli-Can in Lac Saint-Jean Est,
all announced that they will not introduce within their walls medical aid in
dying on request and stressed the incompatibility between this practice ...

Belgian physician Georges Casteur, board member of the Belgian Society of ethics and medical morality, states that the evolution of the practice of euthanasia in Belgium is a typical case of a slippery slope and predicts it will be the same in Quebec if Bill 52 is implemented.

At the invitation of the Physicians’ Alliance Against Euthanasia, Dr. Casteur gave a seminar on June 8 in Montreal, which can be watched here (in French), based on 11 years of experience of euthanasia in Belgium and the conclusions formulated ...

Dr. Patrick Vinay, from the Physicians’ Alliance against Euthanasia, and Dr. Yvette Lajeunesse, responsible for teaching ethics to pre- graduates students at the University of Montreal will hold a debate (in French) on Bill 52 Wednesday, April 9.

We encourage you to attend this debate and share your point of view, especially since the event will be held two days after the provincial election. Your involvement can make a difference. On the program for the debate between the two speakers :

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The National Assembly didn’t vote on Bill 52 before suspending its work last Thursday, February 20th. You probably already heard about it in the news. Some people say that the Bill died on the order paper. However, IT IS POSSIBLE THAT OUR MNAs WILL BE VOTING ON THE BILL AS SOON AS MARCH 10TH! The fight isn’t over.

While it is likely that an election will be called before the Assembly is scheduled to return to work, we must all continue ...

While Quebec MNAs prepare to vote in a few days on Quebec’s Bill 52, which seeks to legalize euthanasia by calling it “medical aid in dying,” the true experts in humanity launch a serious warning: to offer to end a person’s life, and to do so by intentionally injecting a poison, will never be medical care, but rather a very serious betrayal of the sick and the dying.

In a powerful video launched today in Montreal, two giants in the care ...

The Physicians’ Alliance for Total Refusal of Euthanasia testified in front of the parliamentary commission to discuss Bill 52 yesterday afternoon.
The hearing is available (in French) on the Assemblée Nationale website.
View the video (1h06)