{"id":7912,"date":"2025-04-25T14:17:43","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T18:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/collectifmedecins.org\/?p=7912"},"modified":"2025-04-25T14:23:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T18:23:47","slug":"new-book-open-letter-from-our-alliance-and-2025-election-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collectifmedecins.org\/en\/new-book-open-letter-from-our-alliance-and-2025-election-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"New book, open letter from our Alliance, and 2025 election campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"7912\" class=\"elementor elementor-7912\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-64d8715 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"64d8715\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4b9b8b7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" 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Sonu Gaind&nbsp;and law professor&nbsp;Trudo Lemmens.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%\">\u201cFrom a cross-disciplinary\nperspective, including contributions from authors with lived experience,\nIndigenous perspectives, and expertise in medicine, mental health, disability,\nlaw, and ethics, <i>Unravelling MAiD in Canada<\/i> challenges readers with the\nethical, medical, legal, societal, and disability justice rights concerns that\nhave arisen in regard to this hotly debated irreversible practice.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%\">It can be ordered from <\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mqup.ca\/unravelling-maid-in-canada-products-9780228023692.php?page_id=73&amp;)\"><span style=\"font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%\">MQUP<\/span><\/a><\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%\"> and other online\nbooksellers.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%\">**<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%\">As the federal election approaches,\nthe <b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\">Coll\u00e8ge des M\u00e9decins du Qu\u00e9bec<\/b>\ncontinues to lobby for MAiD expansion, regardless of their mandate to protect\nthe public. La Presse published <\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lapresse.ca\/dialogue\/opinions\/2025-04-16\/lettre-du-college-des-medecins-sur-l-aide-medicale-a-mourir\/le-prochain-gouvernement-doit-permettre-les-demandes-anticipees.php\"><span style=\"font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%\">a letter from president Dr. Mauril\nGaudreault<\/span><\/a><\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;\nline-height:115%\"> last week, pressing the candidates to commit to MAiD by\nadvance request.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%\">The Alliance\u2019s response to La Presse\nis copied below. It has not been published.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%\">**<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%\">In March, <\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inclusioncanada.ca\/2025\/03\/26\/do-better-inclusion-canada-welcomes-un-committees-concluding-observations-on-canadas-disability-rights-record\/\"><span style=\"font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%\">the <\/span><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight:\nnormal\"><span style=\"font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-bidi-font-family:\nArial;background:white\">United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with\nDisabilities<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;\nmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;background:white\"> recommended that Canada repeal\nTrack 2 MAiD<\/span><\/a><\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;\nline-height:115%;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#212529;background:white\">\n(for persons whose death is not reasonably foreseeable).&nbsp;The Committee\nstated that the current law \u201cis based on negative, ableist perceptions of the\nquality and value of the life of persons with disabilities, including that\n\u2018suffering\u2019 is intrinsic to disability rather than the fact that inequality and\ndiscrimination cause and compound \u2018suffering\u2019 for persons with\ndisabilities.\u201d&nbsp; <\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#212529;\nbackground:white\">The only political party to respond to the report was the\nGreen Party, which supported the UN recommendation.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#212529;\nbackground:white\">**<\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;line-height:\n115%\"><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%\">Indeed, the many known abuses of the\nMAiD law are very far from the discourse of most of the political parties. <a href=\"https:\/\/collectifmedecins.org\/sites\/collectifmedecins.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/MAiD-2025-Campaign-1.docx\">In\nthe attachment<\/a>, provided by <\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/\"><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\"><span style=\"font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%\">Living with Dignity<\/span><\/b><\/a><\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%\">, you can read what each\nparty has or has not said about this burning issue.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%\">**<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%\">There is much to consider as we\nreflect on Monday\u2019s vote.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%\">Best regards,<a name=\"_GoBack\"><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%\">Catherine Ferrier<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\">**<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%\">Opinion piece sent to <b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\">La Presse<\/b> on April 22, 2025 <\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%\">Response to: <\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lapresse.ca\/dialogue\/opinions\/2025-04-16\/lettre-du-college-des-medecins-sur-l-aide-medicale-a-mourir\/le-prochain-gouvernement-doit-permettre-les-demandes-anticipees.php\"><b><span style=\"font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%\">The next government must permit\nadvance requests<\/span><\/b><\/a><\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;\nline-height:115%\"><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%\">Once again, the <b><i>Coll\u00e8ge des\nM\u00e9decins du Qu\u00e9bec<\/i><\/b> (CMQ) is engaging in political activism, which is\nalien to its mandate to ensure quality medical care and protect the public. We\nphysicians are obliged to pay dues to the CMQ to maintain our license to\npractise medicine, and the funds are used to promote extreme political\npositions. <\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%\">The CMQ is pressing the federal\npoliticians to authorize medical aid in dying (MAiD) by advance request\n(permitted by Quebec law but contrary to the Criminal Code), and for mental\nillness (an option that was firmly rejected by the Quebec government).<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%\">It is well known across Canada that\nmany people request and receive MAiD because of loneliness, isolation, poverty\nand a lack of access to medical care, social supports and decent housing. There\nare anecdotes indicating the same tendency in Quebec, but little specific\ninformation because no one is looking for it, as Ontario recently did, leading\nto <\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><a href=\"https:\/\/macdonaldlaurier.ca\/rushing-to-death-in-canadas-maid-regime-ramona-coelho-for-inside-policy\/\"><span style=\"font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%\">shocking revelations<\/span><\/a><\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%\">.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%\">The only data available to Quebec\u2019s <b><i>Commission\nsur les soins de fin de vie<\/i><\/b> (CSFV) is self-reported by MAiD providers,\na questionable way of monitoring a practice that is a criminal offence if the\nlaw is not respected. In spite of this limitation it <\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/montreal\/quebec-maid-memo-doctors-1.6929134\"><span style=\"font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%\">raised the alarm<\/span><\/a><\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%\"> in 2023 about the rising\nnumber of cases that did not conform to the law or were borderline. The\nCommission reminded doctors that the second medical opinion is not a formality,\nthat doctor-shopping to find a favourable opinion is not acceptable, and that\nadvanced age is not a serious and incurable disease justifying MAiD. <\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/montreal\/article\/quebec-physicians-college-says-some-doctors-worry-about-reprisals-after-giving-maid\/\"><span style=\"font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%\">The CMQ complained<\/span><\/a><\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%\">, in response, that they\nshould not frighten doctors away from performing MAiD. What happened to\nprotecting the public? <\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%\">People with dementia are among the\nmost vulnerable of our citizens and need to be protected. When they<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>suffer, it is almost universally related to\ntheir living conditions and the attitudes of those around them, not to their\nillness as such. <\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%\">MAiD by advance request means that a\nlethal injection is given to someone who cannot consent to or refuse it. What\nis dignified about that? Even some <\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canadianaffairs.news\/2024\/10\/29\/quebecs-legalization-of-advance-maid-requests-raises-legal-medical-concerns\/\"><span style=\"font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%\">well-known MAiD providers<\/span><\/a><\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%\"> are not willing to administer\nit in that situation, citing an expected need to restrain or sedate the\npatient, to prevent him or her from pulling out the IV. <\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%\">MAiD by advance request is popular in\nopinion polls because of fear. Fear of suffering, of ageing, of being abandoned\nby one\u2019s family, of being mistreated in a hospital or a CHSLD because of\nageism, ableism or insufficient resources. Instead of seeking solutions to\nthese legitimate fears, the CMQ agitates for a short-cut to death. What\nhappened to protecting the public? <\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%\">Be it known that the CMQ in no way\nrepresents the views of all doctors.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%\">Catherine Ferrier<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%\">Physician, President of the\nPhysicians\u2019 Alliance against Euthanasia<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><a href=\"https:\/\/collectifmedecins.org\/en\/\"><span style=\"font-size:11.0pt;\nline-height:115%\">https:\/\/collectifmedecins.org\/en\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%\"> <\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear colleagues and friends, &nbsp; We are excited to inform you that McGill-Queen\u2019s University Press has just published an important book, Unravelling MAiD in Canada: Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide as Medical Care, Edited by Dr.&nbsp;Ramona Coelho,&nbsp;Dr. K. Sonu Gaind&nbsp;and law professor&nbsp;Trudo Lemmens. \u201cFrom a cross-disciplinary perspective, including contributions from authors with lived experience, Indigenous perspectives, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsletters"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>New book, open letter from our Alliance, and 2025 election campaign - Physicians\u2019 Alliance against Euthanasia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/collectifmedecins.org\/en\/new-book-open-letter-from-our-alliance-and-2025-election-campaign\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New book, open letter from our Alliance, and 2025 election campaign - Physicians\u2019 Alliance against Euthanasia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dear colleagues and friends, &nbsp; We are excited to inform you that McGill-Queen\u2019s University Press has just published an important book, Unravelling MAiD in Canada: Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide as Medical Care, Edited by Dr.&nbsp;Ramona Coelho,&nbsp;Dr. K. 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