Canadians with disabilities are being offered medical assistance in dying (MAID) when accessing health care for regular health concerns, a disabilities advocate told a parliamentary committee on Oct. 8.
“People with disabilities are now very much afraid in many circumstances to show up in the health care system with regular health concerns, because often MAID is suggested as a solution to what is considered to be intolerable suffering,” Krista Carr, CEO of Inclusion Canada, told the Parliamentary Finance Committee on Oct. 8.
When asked for more details by Conservative MP Garnett Genuis, Carr said she is hearing complaints about this on a “weekly” basis. She said the disability community has “made their case” that Track 2 MAID, which applies to people whose natural death is not reasonably foreseeable, should be repealed….