Discussion · Government Orders
Dave Epp Conservative
“We all agree that people should not get medically assisted dying just for mental illness. Disability and mental health groups agree with that too. We should not combine that agreed rule with a plan to expand assisted dying, which needs much more study before our deadline.”
“Madam Speaker, why? This place has arrived at a consensus, albeit it took some time, on the first part of the bill. All the disabled groups, mental illness groups and everyone else recognized that the path the government was going down was the wrong one, in allowing mental illness to be the sole driver for MAID. Why combine it with an expansion process that needs far more study, irrespective of where one is on the spectrum? Why combine it, with the deadline that the House is facing? What is the logical path for combining those two issues?”
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Madam Speaker, why? This place has arrived at a consensus, albeit it took some time, on the first part of the bill. All the disabled groups, mental illness groups and everyone else recognized that the path the government was going down was the wrong one, in allowing mental illness to be the sole driver for MAID. Why combine it with an expansion process that needs far more study, irrespective of where one is on the spectrum? Why combine it, with the deadline that the House is facing? What is the logical path for combining those two issues?