Senator Stan Kutcher said he supported delaying the expansion until March 2024 because it will allow proper training and practice standards to be made available to provincial regulatory bodies and practitioners
The senator who pushed for Canada’s assisted dying regime to include people whose only condition is a mental disorder says the debate about that policy is now over.
Conservatives supported it, too. But they argue that the expansion should not happen in the first place, with Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre saying he would repeal it if he became prime minister. In the meantime, British Columbia MP Ed Fast has proposed a private member’s bill to do the same. And he invited those who think it is wrong to offer assisted dying to such patients to challenge the law at the Supreme Court: “I don’t know why they’re not, if they have such strong feelings.”
Passing the bill was already going to put the federal government in better alignment with the criteria set out in the 2015 Supreme Court decision that had originally challenged the prohibition on assisted death as counter to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Kutcher convinced senators to amend the bill in the Senate and send it back to the House of Commons, writing an 18-month delay into the law so that practitioners could get ready for what would be a major change.
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