Senator Stan Kutcher says Canada\u0027s expansion debate has already been decided and those who oppose should challenge at the Supreme Court.
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.
“Just because an individual might belong to a group that is considered to be vulnerable, doesn’t mean that individual is vulnerable,” he said. The legislation came in response to a 2019 Quebec Superior Court decision that struck down part of the original framework passed in 2016. The court found it was unconstitutional to only allow people whose death was “reasonably foreseeable” to apply for assisted dying.Article content
But Kutcher recalled thinking that the government should go a step further to truly respect Charter rights. 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.
Without the Senate’s intervention, she said it is likely a legal challenge would have been launched arguing that the regime discriminated against people whose only condition is a mental disorder.
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