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Luc Thériault

Bloc Québécois on Criminal Code 2026-09-23

331 words · 11 sentences · 18 clauses

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A+

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Claims 74%Reasoning 21%The ask 5%

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Madam Speaker, Claims · 30 wordsa few psychiatrists use anecdotal, unsubstantiated claims to assert that every mental illness is treatable or curable, but they also say that psychiatry is wrong about both prognoses and diagnoses. Reasoning · 60 wordsThose psychiatrists cannot explain why we should rely on anecdotal, unsubstantiated accounts involving patients whom they say would have met the MAID eligibility criteria and safeguards set out in the expert panel report when those psychiatrists have no experience with MAID, either as assessors or providers, and when they are are effectively opposed to track 2 or MAID in general. Claims · 159 wordsThe report by the expert panel that proposed the conditions under which MAID could be expanded to mental disorders is clear.¹ Just because a patient makes a request does not mean they will be eligible. During her testimony, Stefanie Green explained that the following individuals are ineligible: ²a person in a suicidal crisis; a person who has recently been admitted for treatment and diagnosed; a person whose request is based on structural vulnerabilities; ³and a person who refuses, without justification, all treatments that could improve their condition.⁴ A person is also ineligible if accessible and effective treatments are available or if the assessors are unable to determine eligibility based on all or part of the criteria.⁵ Evidence of de facto accessibility, linked to a level of preparedness for the safe and appropriate provision of medical assistance in dying for people with mental disorders, was demonstrated in the recent study by the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying.⁶ Reasoning · 10 wordsThose who oppose MAID must do so for other reasons. Claims · 25 wordsThe Bloc Québécois opposes Bill C-218 and proposes that the dispute over whether the exclusion of patients constitutes discrimination be clarified by the Supreme Court.⁷ The ask · 15 wordsIn the meantime, we ask that the sunset clause not be removed prematurely and indefinitely. Claims · 32 wordsThe final recommendation is that recommendation 16 of the expert panel report, ⁸which calls for establishing prospective monitoring at the conclusion of the assessment process, be implemented as an additional clinical safeguard.

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Signal · 100

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Relevance · 100

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Clarity · 100

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Claims · 8

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1“The report by the expert panel that proposed the conditions under which MAID could be expanded to mental disorders is clear.”An expert panel report proposed the conditions under which MAID could be expanded to mental disorders.search
2“Stefanie Green explained that the following individuals are ineligible”Stefanie Green testified that a person in a suicidal crisis is ineligible for MAID.search
3“a person whose request is based on structural vulnerabilities”Stefanie Green testified that a person whose MAID request is based on structural vulnerabilities is ineligible.search
4“a person who refuses, without justification, all treatments that could improve their condition”Stefanie Green testified that a person who refuses, without justification, all treatments that could improve their condition is ineligible for MAID.search
5“A person is also ineligible if accessible and effective treatments are available or if the assessors are unable to determine eligibility based on all or part of the criteria.”Stefanie Green testified that a person is ineligible for MAID if accessible and effective treatments are available or if assessors cannot determine eligibility based on all or part of the criteria.search
6“Evidence of de facto accessibility, linked to a level of preparedness for the safe and appropriate provision of medical assistance in dying for people with mental disorders, was demonstrated in the recent study by the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying.”The recent study by the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying demonstrated evidence of de facto accessibility of MAID for people with mental disorders.search
7“The Bloc Québécois opposes Bill C-218 and proposes that the dispute over whether the exclusion of patients constitutes discrimination be clarified by the Supreme Court.”The Bloc Québécois opposes Bill C-218 and proposes referring the discrimination question to the Supreme Court.search
8“recommendation 16 of the expert panel report”Recommendation 16 of the expert panel report calls for establishing prospective monitoring at the conclusion of the MAID assessment process.search

Analysed on 2026-10-20