OTTAWA – Justice Minister David Lametti was pressed to delay the expansion of medical assistance in dying, amid growing reports Canadian institutions aren’t ready for the change, but declined to promise any pause.
The medically assisted death system didn’t initially include any provision for allowing people faced solely with a mental illness to commit suicide, but in a 2019 rewrite of the law, Senators expanded the scope and gave the government two years to come up with regulations before the law automatically expanded to include mental illness.
