Prime Minister Mark Carney says he won’t take a position yet on whether people with only a mental illness should be able to access assisted dying.
A parliamentary committee of senators and MPs is studying whether the country is ready to expand medical assistance in dying, or MAID, to people whose sole underlying condition is a mental illness.
That extension is set to happen in March 2027, after it was delayed more than once by the previous Liberal government.
The committee has heard testimony from psychiatrists, physicians and legal experts, a majority of whom say Canada should not go ahead with MAID for mental illness….