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You no longer need to be dying for your physician to end your life

As Canada and the world live in fear of death from the COVID-19 pandemic, we are reminded of the lengths to which public authorities can and should go to prevent death and to protect the common good. We consider as normal and necessary the curtailment of certain individual liberties in the interest of protecting citizens from the spread of disease. We are thus reminded that the ...

Wednesday, October 14 2020

Ottawa – Today, more than 50 religious leaders from across Canada released an open letter to all Canadians in opposition to Bill C-7 An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying). This ecumenical and interfaith message is a response by religious leaders to the legislation introduced by the federal government on 5 October 2020 which seeks to expand the eligibility criteria for euthanasia and assisted suicide (euphemistically called “medical ...

THE COUNCIL OF CANADIANS WITH DISABILITIES DENOUNCES TRUDEAU GOVERNMENT’S RE-INTRODUCTION OF UNAMENDED BILL C-7 ON MEDICAL AID IN DYING AS “HEAD-IN-THE SAND MENTALITY” THAT ENDANGERS THE LIVES OF CANADIANS WITH DISABILITIES

ONTARIO – October, 2020 – The Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD), a national disability rights organization, is vehemently denouncing the Trudeau government’s re-introduction of  Bill C-7, a bill which extends access to Medical Aid in Dying ...

Montreal, October 5, 2020 

Facing the distress of people at the end of their lives, who are ill or living with a serious and incurable disability

Let’s take care of vulnerable persons before thinking of offering them “medical assistance in dying”

Following the re-introduction of Bill C-7, modifying the law on medical assistance in dying, the citizen network Living with Dignity (LWD) and the Physicians’ Alliance against Euthanasia (the Alliance) urge the federal government to take into account the lessons of the ...