Canadian Lawmaker Fights Canada’s Plan to Euthanize Mentally Disabled People

A Canadian House member recently introduced a bill that would prevent the country’s euthanasia “medical assistance in dying” (MAiD) program from allowing mental disorders to be a qualifying medical condition for euthanasia — an eligibility expansion the government is set to make by 2027.The preamble of Cloverdale-Langley City MP Tamara Jansen’s private bill C-218, which she introduced June 20, highlights that “Parliament considers that vulnerable Canadians should receive suicide prevention couns