OTTAWA – An expert on Canada’s assisted dying laws says a parliamentary committee studying MAID in cases of mental illness is not focused on its mandate and has not been balanced in its approach.
Jocelyn Downie is a professor emeritus of law at Dalhousie University who has studied assisted dying laws for decades.
She was a witness at the first meeting last month of senators and MPs studying whether Canada is ready to extend assisted dying to people whose sole underlying condition is a mental illness.
