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On May 15th, the Court of Appeal for Ontario confirmed the 2018 Divisional Court ruling that doctors with conscientious objection to “medical assistance in dying” must provide patients who request it with an “effective referral” to another physician or service willing to provide it.

Please click here for the Ontario court decision.

Needless to say, we are very disappointed with this ruling.

We look forward to receiving detailed legal analysis of the judgment and will share it with you as it ...

Dear friends,

Canadian doctors who object to directly causing the death of their patients, once the near-totality of the profession, have since the enactment of laws permitting “medical assistance in dying” suddenly become outliers. Polling data is unclear, polls are often biased, and there is no doubt that the euthanasia lobby had the ear of media, opinion leaders and politicians long before we knew what they were up to. Be that as it may, we are now told that euthanasia/MAiD is ...

Available on-line:

• 2019 Conference schedule
• PDFs of presentations:
  • Medical aid in dying (Dr. Louis Morissette)
  • Home-care for end-of-life patients (Dr. Golda Tradounsky & Joan Foster, B.N.)
  • Advanced pain management (Dr. Patrick Vinay)
• Article in French: Contrôler la douleur neuropathique: la méthadone en coanalgésie

Canadian doctors confront the “neutrality” and “fairness” myths

Since legalization of euthanasia in Canada (euphemistically labelled “Medical Assistance in Dying” / MAID), there has been significant domestic push-back from both doctor and patient-based sources in which our Alliance has played an active part, both here and abroad.

Obviously, for those on both sides of this issue, international opinion is a very important part of the struggle, because that opinion will ultimately decide whether history records the Canadian legalization as a ...

In recent issues of this Newsletter we have considered the dangers of different ongoing schemes for enlarging the qualifying criteria for euthanasia, to include people with dementia (by advance directive), “mature” minors (with or without parental consent or knowledge) and those for whom psychiatric illness is the sole underlying condition.

Unfortunately, by virtue of a challenge currently undertaken by Mr. Jean Truchon and Ms. Nicole Gladu before the Québec Superior Court, there is now something quantitatively much ...