GÉNÉRAL
Est-il encore acceptable de questionner de l’euthanasie au Québec ? https://www.lesoleil.com/opinions/point-de-vue/est-il-encore-acceptable-de-questionner-de-leuthanasie-au-quebec-7d2df0f020a2cb72732130f3c2e58bc4
Le sophisme du concret mal placé
https://le-verbe.com/opinion/le-sophisme-du-concret-mal-place/
Aide médicale à mourir : des médecins divergent sur la sensation des patients
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1768269/aide-medicale-mourir-audition-medecins-senat-c-7
Aide médicale à mourir et vote en faveur du projet de loi C-7 par les députés fédéraux. Où tracerons-nous maintenant la ligne? https://collectifmedecins.org/communique-de-vivre-dans-la-dignite-et-le-collectif-des-medecins-contre-leuthanasie/
Le projet de loi C‑7, de l’AMM à la MAM : l’aide médicale à mourir devient la mort administrée par un médecin
https://maid2mad.ca/
Le projet de loi C-7 est un sparadrap pour un système fracturéhttps://tvndy.ca/2020/10/le-projet-de-loi-c-7-est-un-sparadrap-pour-un-systeme-fracture/
Nous pouvons, nous devons faire beaucoup mieux – Les leaders religieux au Canada dénoncent le projet de loi C 7, Loi modifiant le Code criminel (aide médicale à mourir)
https://www.cccb.ca/fr/media-release/nous-pouvons-nous-devons-faire-beaucoup-mieux-les-leaders-religieux-au-canada-denoncent-le-projet-de-loi-c-7-loi-modifiant-le-code-criminel-aide-medicale-a-mourir/
Lettre ouverte: Autonomie, dignité et le nouveau projet de loi sur l’aide à mourir
https://vivredignite.org/2020/10/lettre-ouverte-autonomie-dignite-et-le-nouveau-projet-de-loi-sur-laide-a-mourir/
DIRECTIVES ANTICIPÉES
Notre inquiétude face à l’aide médicale à mourir https://www.ledevoir.com/opinion/idees/595951/notre-inquietude-face-a-l-aide-medicale-a-mourir
https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2021/02/26/on-ne-peut-permettre-laide-medicale-a-mourir-aux-gens-atteints-de-demence
https://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2021/02/26/on-ne-peut-permettre-laide-medicale-a-mourir-aux-gens-atteints-de-demence-1
https://www.qub.radio/balado/sophie-durocher
TROUBLES NEURODÉGÉNÉRATIFS (ALZHEIMER ET CIE)
On ne peut permettre l’aide médicale à mourir aux gens atteints de démence
https://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2021/02/26/on-ne-peut-permettre-laide-medicale-a-mourir-aux-gens-atteints-de-demence-1
Une Trifluvienne d’origine atteinte d’alzheimer pour le consentement préalable à l’aide à mourir (réponse de Nicole Poirier)
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1771603/sandra-demontigny-alzheimer-loi-aide-medicale-mourir-petition-senateur-deputes
TROUBLES MENTAUX
Élargir ou pas l’aide à mourir aux cas de maladie mentale?
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1772683/aide-medicale-mourir-elargissement-cas-sante-mentale
Urgence de bloquer la version amendée du projet de loi C-7 https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=205029504750350
Les dangers d’ouvrir l’aide médicale à mourir à des cas de troubles mentaux
https://www.ledevoir.com/opinion/idees/594649/projet-de-loi-c-7-les-dangers-d-ouvrir-l-aide-medicale-a-mourir-a-des-cas-de-troubles-mentaux
Aide médicale à mourir : ça en dit long sur nous… Chronique de Richard Martineau https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2020/12/17/elargir-encore-laide-medicale-a-mourir
AUTOCHTONES
Aide médicale à mourir: un Autochtone réclame de meilleurs soins d’abord
https://lactualite.com/actualites/aide-medicale-a-mourir-un-autochtone-reclame-de-meilleurs-soins-dabord
PENTE GLISSANTE
Aide médicale à mourir: la pente glissante, un tabou? https://www.lesoleil.com/opinions/point-de-vue/aide-medicale-a-mourir-la-pente-glissante-un-tabou-a01fb5ae3a437902d0f526e44ca06473
DÉFICIENCES
L’ONU s’inquiète d’un accès élargi https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/sante/2021-01-27/aide-medicale-a-mourir/l-onu-s-inquiete-d-un-acces-elargi.php
Le monde nous regarde : sérieux avertissement concernant le projet de loi canadien C-7 sur la légalisation du suicide assisté pour motif de déficience.
https://inclusioncanada.ca/fr/2021/01/27/le-monde-nous-regarde-serieux-avertissement-concernant-le-projet-de-loi-canadien-c-7-sur-la-legalisation-du-suicide-assiste-pour-motif-de-deficience/
Lettre ouverte à la sénatrice Chantal Petitclerc, par Gordon Friesen http://www.euthanasiediscussion.net/2021/02/03/lettre-ouverte-a-lhonorable-chantal-petitclerc-senatrice/
Il faut repenser le nouveau projet de loi sur l’aide médicale à mourir https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/december-2020/il-faut-repenser-le-nouveau-projet-de-loi-sur-laide-medicale-a-mourir/
Le conseil des canadiens avec déficiences dénonce la remise en vigueur du projet de loi C-7 non modifié sur l’aide médical à mourir avec cette « politique de l’autruche », le gouvernement Trudeau met en danger la vie des Canadiens en situation du handicap http://www.ccdonline.ca/fr/humanrights/endoflife/Media-Release-Bill-C7-5October2020
en anglais:
Mental Health Articles
MAID for mental illness is grave discrimination
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2021/03/01/maid-for-mental-illness-is-grave-discrimination.html
Canada Tonight: Mother of Adam Meir Clayton @ 26:07, John Maher @ 34:36
https://cbcgem.app/cc4xvJUDMKmsXD4y5
https://gem.cbc.ca/media/canada-tonight/season-0/episode-0/44b8224-013a9972a26
Dr Sonu Gaind’s Scott Radley show interview https://omny.fm/shows/scott-radley-show/what-happened-to-the-snc-lavalin-investigation-sho?t=13m44s
High rates of psychiatric comorbidity among requesters of medical assistance in dying: Results of a Canadian prevalence study
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0163834320301857?via%3Dihub
Mental illness should never be a death sentence The Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) is urging MPs to vote against the amendments made by the Senate to C-7. In particular, the clause to start the clock on eventually allowing people to seek medical assistance in dying (MAID) with mental illness as a sole underlying cause.
https://www.nationalnewswatch.com/2021/02/20/mental-illness-should-never-be-a-death-sentence/#.YDgNrmhKiUk
Medical assistance in dying for mental illness ignores safeguards for vulnerable people
https://theconversation.com/medical-assistance-in-dying-for-mental-illness-ignores-safeguards-for-vulnerable-people-156012
Expert panel working out parameters of assisted-dying legislation face an impossible task
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-expert-panel-working-out-parameters-of-assisted-dying-legislation-face/
Medically Assisted Dying and Suicide: How Are They Different, and How Are They Similar?
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/hast.1083
Canada’s proposed expansion of assisted-death threatens to push the mentally ill out the door
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-canadas-proposed-expansion-of-assisted-death-threatens-to-push-the/
McGuinty and Tang: Medically assisted death – Let’s offer humane and dignified living before offering a lethal injection
https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/mcguinty-and-tang-medically-assisted-death-lets-offer-humane-and-dignified-living-before-offering-a-lethal-injection
Senate amendment raises debate over medically assisted death for those with mental illness
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/senate-amendment-raises-debate-over-medically-assisted-death-for-those-with-mental-illness-1.5304371
Medical assistance in dying for mental illness ignores safeguards for vulnerable people
https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/medical-assistance-in-dying-for-mental-illness-ignores-safeguards-for-vulnerable-peopl
Evidence lacking to support inclusion of mental illness in assisted-dying framework
https://www.hilltimes.com/2021/03/01/maid-2/286117
Plan to exclude mental illnesses from assisted-dying criteria prompts legal, moral questions
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/plan-to-exclude-mental-illnesses-from-assisted-dying-criteria-prompts-legal-moral-questions-1.5199746
MAID for mental illness opens dangerous doors
Some argue that prohibiting access to MAID for mental illness is unconstitutional and discriminatory. Unfortunately, that claim is based on a superficial notion that anything being treated differently reflects undue discrimination. In reality, significant differences exist between illnesses that are mental in nature and those that are physical, such that removal of this prohibition would be more than merely discriminatory, it will be fatal for those who most need protection and care within a protective legal framework.
K. Sonu Gaind, Sephora Tang
https://www.thespec.com/opinion/contributors/2021/02/16/maid-for-mental-illness-opens-dangerous-doors.html
Evidence is needed before including mental illness in assisted death legislation
There are no standards anywhere for predicting irremediability in mental illnesses, nor is there evidence to show that this can be done. In reviewing the topic CAMH has stated “there is simply not enough evidence available in the mental health field at this time for clinicians to ascertain whether a particular individual has an irremediable mental illness.”
K. Sonu Gaind
https://www.thespec.com/opinion/contributors/2020/10/22/evidence-is-needed-before-including-mental-illness-in-assisted-death-legislation.html
Alex Schadenberg blogspot: on senator Kutcher and suicide
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/12/alex-schadenberg-executive-director.html?m=1
Disability articles:
Open letter by the Vulnerable Persons Standard
http://www.vps-npv.ca/stopc7
‘Dehumanizing’: People With Disabilities Say They’ve Been Ignored in Bill C-7 Assisted Dying Debate
https://pressprogress.ca/dehumanizing-people-with-disabilities-say-theyve-been-ignored-in-bill-c-7-assisted-dying-debate/
Disability rights advocate opposes expanding assistance in dying
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/opinion-nancy-hansen-disability-rights-assistance-in-dying-1.5926502
Trudeau government should rethink its flawed changes to assisted dying
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/2021/02/26/trudeau-government-should-rethink-its-flawed-changes-to-assisted-dying.html
Raymond J. de Souza: When suicide masquerades as health care
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/raymond-j-de-souza-when-suicide-masquerades-as-health-care
Canada is plunging toward a human rights disaster for disabled people
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/canada-is-heading-toward-a-human-rights-disaster-for-disabled-people/2021/02/19/01cbfca4-7232-11eb-85fa-e0ccb3660358_story.html
Living and dying with dignity: third chance to get assisted dying bill right
https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/health/living-and-dying-with-dignity-third-chance-to-get-assisted-dying-bill-right-1.5239528
Proposed changes to assisted-dying law make death a viable option for people with disabilities, advocate fears
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/maid-assisted-dying-bill-c7-bc-1.5845306
Liberal MP and doctor says he’ll vote against assisted death bill
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/liberal-mp-marcus-powlowski-maid-c7-assisted-dying-lametti-1.5833493
Canada’s Death for the Disabled is a Wake-up Call for the U.S.
A new bill shows the right-to-die movement is accelerating.
https://thebulwark.com/canadas-death-for-the-disabled-is-wakeup-call-for-the-u-s/
Doctors condemn changes to Canada’s assisted dying law as ‘reckless’
https://www.citynews1130.com/2020/11/28/canadian-doctors-oppose-maid/
DAVID W. SHANNON: Assisted-death bill gives licence to do away with disabled people like me
https://www.thechronicleherald.ca/opinion/local-perspectives/david-w-shannon-assisted-death-bill-gives-licence-to-do-away-with-disabled-people-like-me-526645/
Experts caution against expanding medical assistance in dying Disability advocates and health professionals are warning that proposed changes to the government’s assisted-dying legislation could open the floodgates to those who are eligible for life-ending procedures.
https://ipolitics.ca/2020/11/12/experts-caution-against-expanding-medical-assistance-in-dying/
Disability advocates say assisted dying bill fails to protect vulnerable Canadians
Man suffering from neurological disorder says MAID easier to access than supports for disabled Canadians {Kathleen Harris – CBC]
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5796697
Why disability advocates are worried about changes to Canada’s medical assistance in dying bill
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/why-disability-advocates-are-worried-about-changes-to-canada-s-medical-assistance-in-dying-bill-1.5832303
Letter in Opposition to Bill C-7 from Robert Wilson and Matthew Barker
https://biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2021/01/30/letter-in-opposition-to-bill-c-7-from-robert-wilson-and-matthew-barker/
Disability advocates urge Liberals to scrap its ‘norm-shattering’ assisted dying legislation.
Advocates say the new law could ultimately lead disabled people in particular to seek euthanasia even in cases where the patient might recover to full health
https://nationalpost.com/news/disability-advocates-urge-liberals-to-scrap-its-norm-shattering-assisted-dying-legislation
Poll shows many Canadians are worried about expanding assisted suicide
https://grandinmedia.ca/poll-shows-many-canadians-are-worried-about-expanding-assisted-suicide/
Assisted dying legislation puts equality for people with disabilities at risk
Bill C-7 will amend our current medical assistance in dying (MAID) law by creating a separate pathway to assisted death for persons who are not dying and may have decades still to live, provided such persons have some form of disabling medical condition.
Catherine Frazee
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-assisted-dying-legislation-puts-equality-for-people-with-disabilities/
available only to subscribers.
Health-care costs in Canada dropped after assisted dying became legal
https://globalnews.ca/news/7407627/health-care-costs-canada-assisted-dying/
Bioethics, Catherine Frazee, and MAID in Canada
More and more disabled people have spoken out in the mainstream press, on social media, and in other venues against the legislation and expansion of it, especially with respect to the threats to their lives that it poses, the poverty and other social circumstances that MAID obscures, and the ableist exceptionism of the legislation itself.
Many of these disabled authors and activists remain unconvinced by the arguments that feminist and other bioethicists have advanced according to which the legislation incorporates safeguards ensuring that MAID won’t detrimentally affect disabled people and other vulnerabilized social groups. Links to a number of these articles are provided below this latest video of Catherine Frazee.
https://biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2020/11/16/bioethics-catherine-frazee-and-maid-in-canada/
Parliament should hit brakes on quick passage of new assisted-dying law
The bill expresses an ableist presumption that lives with disability or chronic illness are intolerable or less worthy. It also ignores the context in which people with disabilities have to make health care decisions.
Trudo Lemmens and Leah Krakowtiz-Broker
https://www.hilltimes.com/2020/11/18/parliament-should-hit-brakes-on-quick-passage-of-new-assisted-dying-law/272578
‘Cold comfort to be offered the choice to die’ when not offered support to live, says disability advocate
Catherine Frazee said Bill C-7 and the amendments it proposes undermines ‘any kind of suicide intervention in the life of a disabled person.’
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-nov-19-2020-1.5807944/cold-comfort-to-be-offered-the-choice-to-die-when-not-offered-support-to-live-says-disability-advocate-1.5808541
Counterpoint with Tanya Granic Allen
https://thenewsforum.ca/series/counterpoint/
London Morning Radio Show with Rebecca Zandbergen
The federal government has tabled changes to the MAID legislation. It wants to remove the requirement that the patient is likely to die in the foreseeable future. That has London’s Dr. Ramona Coelho concerned.
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-158-london-morning/clip/15809707-ottawas-plan-update-maid-concerns-local-doctor
Progress Against MAiD
Catherine Frazee, a long-time disability Rights activist and Ontario’s former Chief Commissioner of Human Rights, talked to MPs about pending MAiD expansion recently.
https://www.convivium.ca/articles/progress-against-maid/
Dying for the right to live
Gabrielle Peters: Many disabled Canadians have been forced into poverty by insufficient income support—especially true during the pandemic. Some are considering MAID because they “simply cannot afford to keep on living.”
https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/dying-for-the-right-to-live/
Proposed changes to MAiD are pure madness
This bill effectively allows medical death on demand for almost anyone who wants it.
Ramona Coelho, Leonie Herx, Timothy Lau & John F. Scott
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/nationalpost.com/opinion/opinion-proposed-changes-to-maid-are-pure-madness/wcm/17d3f305-b025-4a23-9895-63d239392356/amp/
Canada’s Newest And Deadliest Human Right: Assisted Suicide for All.
Ever since the mid-1990s when Sue Rodriguez and Robert Latimer forced euthanasia onto the Canadian landscape, debate has been passionate and polarizing. In recognition of this controversy, the federal Liberals’ 2016 assisted -suicide legislation set strict limits on the procedure and promised a full review after five years. Barely three years later, however, the Trudeau government changed its mind. Now, a new law removing nearly every existing restriction sits with the Senate awaiting final approval.
Lynne Cohen lays bare the legislations’ deadly implications, the political machinations that brought us here, and how the entire concept of human rights has been stood on its head.
https://c2cjournal.ca/2021/01/canadas-newest-and-deadliest-human-right-assisted-suicide-for-all/
Needed: more medical aid in living, not medical aid in dying
We stand to become a society that easily disposes of those we think are disposable, that sees MAiD not as a last resort, but a good option.
Dr. Sherif Emil
https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/opinion-needed-more-medical-aid-in-living-not-medical-aid-in-dying
A dangerous path: Why expanding access to medical assistance in dying keeps us up at night
When a government starts making laws based on the premise that some lives are not worth living, it is setting out on an extremely dangerous path. Heidi L. Janz and Leonie Herx
https://theconversation.com/a-dangerous-path-why-expanding-access-to-medical-assistance-in-dying-keeps-us-up-at-night-153540?fbclid=IwAR0n9IQGyy8feJN0jl2jWVK0zw7dns1zzFNDAbFSSNWgxxDebMDp-dATpbE
Taking MAiD way too far
Gabrielle Peters: The effort to widen eligibility for MAiD to include disabled people who are not actually dying is dangerous, unsettling, and deeply flawed
https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/taking-maid-way-too-far/
Indigenous and Racism articles:
First Nations leaders say Bill C7 goes against their beliefs and values
https://grandinmedia.ca/first-nations-leaders-say-bill-c7-goes-against-their-beliefs-and-values/
New proposed assisted-dying law is ‘racist,’ says disability rights activist
https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/politics/new-proposed-assisted-dying-law-is-racist-says-disability-rights-activist-1.5300164
Ottawa should address anti-Indigenous racism in health care before expanding MAID, advocate say https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-ottawa-should-address-anti-indigenous-racism-in-health-care-before/
Assisted-death bill sends wrong message to Indigenous people, advocates say Indigenous elders work hard to tell young people that suicide should not be an option, and the medical assistance in dying (MAID) bill says the opposite, said Tyler White, chief executive officer of Siksika Health Services, which provides health services to Indigenous communities in Alberta.
“Extraordinary efforts have been made in suicide prevention in our communities,” he said. “The expansion of MAID sends a contradictory message to our peoples that some individuals should receive suicide prevention, while others suicide assistance.” https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2020/11/24/assisted-death-bill-sends-wrong-message-to-indigenous-people-advocates-say.html
Conscience Articles:
Physicians should not be forced to make assisted-death referrals
Bill C-7, passed by the House of Commons and now in front of a Senate committee, raises even more ethical challenges than the original legislation. Doctors who object should not be compelled to support it.
Thomas Bouchard, Ramona Coelho and Leonie Herx
https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/bouchard-coelho-and-herx-physicians-should-not-be-forced-to-make-assisted-death-referrals
Assisted Dying Legislation must reconcile the rights of those who object to the practice
Brian Bird and Christina Lamb
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/opinion-assisted-dying-legislation-must-reconcile-the-rights-of-those-who-object-to-the-practice?
Lack of support vs. option to die The proposed expansion of the assisted death law fails to provide the dignity of good care
Coelho, Gandhi and Herx
https://lfpress.com/opinion/columnists/coelho-gandhi-and-herx-lack-of-support-vs-option-to-die
Legal and other articles
Why the federal government should rethink its new medical assistance in dying law
MAiD proposal represents a deadly form of discrimination against people with disabilities, chronic illness.
Trudo Lemmens, Leah Krakowitz-Broker
https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/opinion-medical-assistance-in-dying-maid-legislation-1.5790710
Patients, not doctors, should initiate conversations on assisted dying: Qualtrough Disability Inclusion Minister Carla Qualtrough says health practitioners should not be allowed to discuss the issue of assisted dying until a patient asks about it _ and she’s open to amending the law to make that clear.
https://www.canadianhealthcarenetwork.ca/physicians/news/patients-not-doctors-should-initiate-conversations-on-assisted-dying-qualtrough-61068?
Extending the scope of assisted dying is wrong
The Canadian government is rushing to expand the terms for medically assisted death in Canada. This will have implications for the most vulnerable.
https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/november-2020/extending-the-scope-of-assisted-dying-is-wrong/
Rush to expand MAiD turns policy-making on its head.
In every other field, from new airplanes to new medicines, the onus is on the advocate to provide clear, scientific evidence that the idea is safe.
https://vancouversun.com/opinion/harvey-schipper-and-harry-swain-rush-to-expand-maid-turns-policy-making-on-its-head
Canadians need more palliative care, not same-day death on demand
Bill C-7 kills off the modest safeguards that were supposedly in place. It will now be possible to be get the lethal injection the same day it is requested Raymond J. de Souza
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/raymond-j-de-souza-canadians-need-more-palliative-care-not-same-day-death-on-demand
How Bill C-7 will sacrifice the medical profession’s Standard of Care:
Amendments to assisted dying laws are a stunning reversal of the central role of the medical and legal concept of the standard of care.
Trudo Lemmens, Mary Shariff and Leonie Herx
https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/february-2021/how-bill-c7-will-sacrifice-the-medical-professions-standard-of-care/
Disability is not a reason to sanction medically assisted dying – UN experts UN human rights experts today expressed alarm at a growing trend to enact legislation enabling access to medically assisted dying based largely on having a disability or disabling conditions, including in old age.
https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=26687&LangID=E
https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/DownLoadPublicCommunicationFile?gId=26002
Belgian euthanasia is broken, says academic study
https://www.bioedge.org/bioethics/belgian-euthanasia-is-broken-says-academic-study/13688
Why the Plan to update Canada’s assisted dying law needs a rethink
Jaro Kotalik
https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/kotalik-why-the-plan-to-update-canadas-assisted-dying-law-needs-a-rethink
Society should offer humane and dignified living before offering medically assisted death
Opinion: Poor mental health, coupled with insufficient financial, personal and/or social supports, often leads to suicidal wishes in people overwhelmed by their circumstances.
Dylan McGuinty Jr and Sephora Tang
https://vancouversun.com/opinion/dylan-mcguinty-jr-and-sephora-tang-society-should-offer-humane-and-dignified-living-before-offering-medically-assisted-death
New assisted death legislation pushes the boundaries too far
John Milloy
https://www.thespec.com/opinion/contributors/2020/12/02/new-assisted-death-legislation-pushes-the-boundaries-too-far.html?rf
Bill C-7 is a matter of life and death for persons with disabilities
Let’s take our time debating this issue and coming to the right conclusion. For persons with disabilities, this is literally a matter of life and death.
Nicolas Rouleau
https://www.hilltimes.com/2020/12/03/bill-c-7-is-a-matter-of-life-and-death-for-persons-with-disabilities/274529
Canadians being left in the dark on changes to assisted death, as court-imposed deadline approaches
Training and oversight of MAID assessors and providers, and the data required for overview, show it to be inconsistent and imprecise. Only three provinces have even rudimentary training programs.
Harvey Schipper and Robyn Boucher
https://www.hilltimes.com/2020/12/03/canadians/274557
Equality for persons with disabilities on the line in new assisted dying legislation
Bill C7 will amend our current medical assistance in dying (MAID) law by creating a separate pathway to assisted death for persons who are not dying and may have decades still to live, provided such persons have some form of disabling medical condition.
https://www.canadianhealthcarenetwork.ca/physicians/discussions/equality-for-persons-with-disabilities-on-the-line-in-new-assisted-dying-legislation-61102
Is Canada trying to make medically assisted dying too easy?
The data indicate that the wish to die and desire for death in the context of terminal illness can fluctuate widely over time. Our research group was one of the first to study the will to live in the terminally ill and reported that will to live can be highly fluctuant over intervals as short as 12 and 24 hours.
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/the-saturday-debate/2020/12/05/is-canada-trying-to-make-medically-assisted-dying-too-easy.html
Bill C-7, assisted dying and “lives not worth living”
Legalizing MAiD for people not foreseeably dying risks stigmatizing vulnerable citizens. It’s a narrow medical solution to larger social problems.
Jonas-Sebastien Beaudry
https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/december-2020/bill-c-7-assisted-dying-and-lives-not-worth-living/
Our cautious start to assisted suicide is now an accelerating drive toward death-on-demand
Andrew Coyne
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-our-cautious-start-to-assisted-dying-is-now-an-accelerating-drive/
As criteria for medical assistance in dying shifts, calls for more alternatives, support for people who are suffering
Bill C7 removes the “foreseeable death” requirement. It also explicitly excludes eligibility for people whose sole underlying condition is mental illness.
Kristen Holliday
https://vancouversun.com/news/as-criteria-for-medical-assistance-in-dying-shifts-calls-for-more-alternatives-support-for-people-who-are-suffering
Dr. Joel Zivot Op-Ed: Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying = Torturous Death
https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/ethics/91214
How Parliament and our Federal Government are Playing MAID Politics with the Lives of People with Mental Illness
https://www.law.utoronto.ca/blog/faculty/how-parliament-and-our-federal-government-are-playing-maid-politics-lives-people-mental
MacDonald Laurier Institute event: https://www.macdonaldlaurier.ca/event/maid-far-dare-go-medical-assistance-dying/
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UiVGb1RWWh0