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Ontario overhauls MAID oversight committee, critics say it’s to remove dissenters

Ontario is overhauling its body that reviews complex medically assisted deaths, narrowing its membership, scaling back its scope and shifting its role away from independent oversight toward supporting the system it is meant to scrutinize, according to documents obtained by The Globe and Mail.

Two former members say the proposed new version of the committee is designed to be less rigorous and to provide less oversight.

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