Discussion · Government Orders
Garnett Genuis Conservative
“This bill does not require that a person be told before their life is ended. Under an advance request, someone could be given life-ending medication without knowing it.”
“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, 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—