Federal Justice Minister David Lametti introduced legislation last week that will defer for a year the expansion of medically assisted suicides
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Federal officials say they need more time to develop guidelines for such a controversial expansion of the MAID law. Canada has one of broadest laws in the world allowing for medically assisted suicide. Few other countries have any such provisions. When MAID legislation was originally enacted in 2016 it was seen as a humane measure that would allow a terminally ill person to end his or her pain and suffering on their own terms.Article contentLast year, Dr.
Tabling the bill last week, Lametti said the government had heard from various sources that they should “slow this down.”
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