Bill C-14 (2016)
Bill C-14
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Bill C-14 (2016) — Third Reading Debate
An assisted death could be an acceptable treatment for a soldier with post-traumatic stress disorder, a young person who suffered a spinal cord injury in an accident, or a survivor whose mind was haunted by memories of sexual abuse.
The Minister of Justice explicitly named PTSD soldiers as potential MAID candidates — in 2016, before Bill C-7 removed the "reasonably foreseeable death" requirement.
Hansard →The eligibility criterion requiring a reasonably foreseeable natural death would be repealed.
Even during C-14, MPs discussed repealing the "reasonably foreseeable death" requirement — the guardrail that Bill C-7 removed five years later.
Hansard →Bill C-7 (2021) — The Expansion
Bill C-7 proposes to remove the requirement that a person's natural death be reasonably foreseeable, creating a second track for persons who have a serious and incurable illness, disease, or disability.
Track 2 was the mechanism. "Serious and incurable" includes chronic conditions that a functioning healthcare system would manage — but that Canada's failing system cannot treat, making them "irremediable."
The committee heard testimony from disability rights organizations warning that expanding MAID to non-terminal conditions would put vulnerable Canadians at risk. The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities expressed concern. Despite these warnings, the expansion proceeded.
They were warned. By disability organizations. By the United Nations. They voted yes anyway. 173 MPs voted for expansion →
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