In February, Abbotsford Conservative Party MP Ed Fast introduced Bill C-314, the Mental Health Protection Act , which would quash the federal government’s (delayed) mental-health extension, without repealing the original “foreseeable death” principle. Nice try, but Sen. Stan Kutcher, prime mover of the mental-disorder expansion, says the issue is “decided.” In a culture where, to nattering nabobs, the words “slippery slope” conjure up not an avalanche, but a delightful toboggan ride.
