A special parliamentary committee has tabled its long-awaited report on whether the federal government should expand its medical assistance in dying (MAID) regime to include Canadians whose sole underlying condition is a mental illness.
The report’s recommendation has wide implications for the future of the controversial procedure in Canada, as the prime minister and justice minister have both said they would wait until the committee’s recommendation before deciding whether to proceed with expanding MAID eligibility.
The federal government has already delayed expansion several times, but MAID is currently on track to be expanded to include the mentally ill on March 17, 2027 unless the expansion provision is scrapped….