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Kristina Tesser Derksen

Liberal on Medical Assistance in Dying Safeguards Act

Replying to Garnett Genuis (Conservative)
“Madam Speaker, the member pointed out that this legislation says that if a person were to resist, then the act of ending their life should stop, but what she does not acknowledge and should, I think, is that the legislation would not require that the person be informed before their life is taken. Very likely what would happen, based on an advance directive, is that someone would have something put in them without—”

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Madam Speaker, I am without the benefit of hearing the entire question. However, no medical practitioner is going to want to put themselves in a position where they have administered MAID without informing the person ahead of time.