Reaction to the tabling of Bill 11 and Federal AMAD Committee Report

The Mirage of Advance Requests

What kind of society administers death to those who have lost their 
decision-making capacity? 

A look at the many ethical and moral pitfalls of expanding access to MAiD in:
– Quebec: Decision-making incapacity, disability and the obligation of hospices to offer MAiD 
– Ottawa: Decision-making incapacity, mature minors and mental disorders

https://collectifmedecins.org/civicrm/mailing/view/?id=1176&reset=1

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PRESS RELEASE re: Bill 38

For immediate release

Montreal, 26th May 2022

The CAQ government in Quebec is celebrating the end of the parliamentary session by offering death to as many people as possible. With two weeks left before the summer break the government intends, almost without debate, to radically extend the “medical aid in dying” law.

Death from COVID and war is not enough: we now must deliver it to vulnerable seniors with dementia, and force it upon independent palliative care homes.

Palliative care homes, which are financed primarily ...

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Joint press release: Gratitude and concern

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A joint reaction of Living with Dignity and the Physicians’ Alliance against Euthanasia to the report of the Quebec Select Committee on the Evolution of the Act respecting end-of-life care

Montreal, December 9th, 2021 – The citizen network Living with Dignity and the Physicians’ Alliance Against Euthanasia would like to jointly express their gratitude to the ...

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Joint Press release of Living with Dignity and the Physicians’ Alliance against Euthanasia

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Medical Assistance in Dying:  MPs Vote in Favour of Bill C-7

Where do we draw the line now?

Montreal, Friday, December 4, 2020 – Like all the groups and individuals who spoke out in the hope that Bill C-7 will be amended to better protect the most vulnerable people from “medical assistance in dying” (MAID), Living with Dignity and the Physicians’ Alliance Against Euthanasia are deeply concerned about the outcome of yesterday’s preliminary vote (at report stage) by Members of ...

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PRESS RELEASE

For Immediate Release

Alert from a growing number of Canadian physicians

“We are being bullied to participate in Medical Assistance in Dying”

Montréal, March 9, 2020 – The Physicians’ Alliance against Euthanasia has received reports that unwilling physicians are being pressured and bullied to participate in Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD): euphemism for euthanasia and assisted suicide.  Fearing reprisals, physicians have asked that no information that could identify them be disclosed.

The pressure has been intense for many physicians, especially amongst palliative specialists, ...

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PRESS RELEASE BILL C-7 and broadening Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) in Canada

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Montreal, 26 February, 2020

Do we collectively seek the most permissive voluntary euthanasia program in the world?

Following Monday’s tabling of Bill C-7 in the Canadian Parliament, Living with Dignity and the Physicians’ Alliance against Euthanasia deplore this new chapter in a political approach leading step by step to death on demand for suffering people in Canada. Bill C-7, removes the requirement that a person receiving “medical assistance in dying” (MAiD) be in a situation where ...

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Press release: Quebec legislation regarding medical assistance in dying

The Physicians’ Alliance against Euthanasia wishes to express its astonishment at the Quebec government’s recklessness in the face of the reality experienced by sick, vulnerable and suffering people in our society who are not necessarily at the end of their lives.

In a decision handed down on September 11, 2019 in the Truchon and Gladu case, the Quebec Superior Court invalidated the “end of life” criterion and its federal counterpart “reasonably foreseeable natural death” as a condition of access to medical ...

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Press release

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Montreal, April 24, 2019

Words matter: appeal to the delegates at the 212th WMA Council Session 

The Physicians’ Alliance against Euthanasia, representing 1100 Canadian doctors, continues to be concerned about discussions at the World Medical Association (WMA) forums concerning euthanasia and assisted suicide. We are aware that the proposed Reconsideration of WMA Statement on this matter, submitted to the 210th Council in Reykjavik by the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) and the Royal Dutch Medical Association (RDMA), that the ...

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Press release

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Canadian Physicians Won’t Kill

The Physicians’ Alliance against Euthanasia, representing more than 1100 Canadian doctors, is holding a press conference to present its position and answer questions:

Tuesday October 2, 2018, 10:30 A.M.
HEKLA Meeting Room
CentreHotel Plaza
Aðalstræti 4 – 101 Reykjavík

As World Medical Association (WMA) delegates gather in Reykjavik, Iceland, for its Medical Ethics Conference and Annual General Assembly, Canadian doctors are speaking out against a so-called neutral ethical stance on euthanasia. Canadian physicians ...

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