Mental Health and MAID: Canadians question looming changes to Canada’s assisted-death law
, finds Canadians generally supportive of the federal government’s first two iterations of assisted dying legislation, but trepidatious when thinking about the likely next step.
Just three-in-ten say they support the concept of offering MAID for irremediable mental illness. Half oppose this idea. Justice Minister David Lamettithat the additional one-year delay will “provide time to help provincial and territorial partners and the medical and nursing communities to prepare to deliver MAID in these circumstances”.
Faith is factor in views of assisted dying. Those who are Religiously Committed oppose access to MAID for all criteria. Others along the index, including the Privately Faithful, are more supportive of MAID in instances that do not involve mental health Quebec residents stand out as most supportive of MAID. In 2019 the Superior Court of Québec declared that the “reasonable foreseeability of natural death” provision in the 2016 law was unconstitutional. This challenge pushed the federal government to adopt new criteria in the 2021 law:Canada’s MAID law was expected to change again in March of this year, with the Liberal government set to introduce a new eligibility – those suffering from mental illness.
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