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Committee recommends no MAID expansion for mental disorder

6/18/202620 min

A special parliamentary committee is recommending that the federal government "indefinitely exclude" people whose sole underlying condition is a mental illness from applying for medical assistance in dying (MAID). Recent polling from Angus Reid found the country is divided when it comes to expanding MAID, while some legal experts say it is a violation of people’s constitutional rights.

Clips

Committee "Orchestrated" Against MAID
A Decade-Long Turnaround
Suicide vs. MAID: Blurred Lines
Mental Illness Exclusion = Discrimination
Charter Over Polls

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  2. Matt Galloway· Host0:30

    [upbeat music] This is a CBC podcast. Hello, I'm Matt Galloway, and this is The Current podcast. 10 years ago, Canada legalized medical assistance in dying. The move allowed people facing a reasonably foreseeable natural death to end their lives on their own terms. Now, the government is considering whether to expand eligibility to people suffering solely from mental illness. Yesterday, a parliamentary committee recommended against that. In a moment, we'll hear from two people who testified in that committee on different sides of this debate. But first, we're joined by Shachi Kurl, president of the Angus Reid Institute, which has released new polling around Canadian attitudes toward MAID. Shachi, good morning.

  3. Shachi Kurl· Guest1:12

    Good morning.

  4. Matt Galloway· Host1:12

    Your report comes, as I say, a decade after MAID was legalized. What do we know in this moment about how Canadians feel about medical assistance in dying as it stands right now?

  5. Shachi Kurl· Guest1:21

    It really depends on which version of the legislation we're talking about, Matt. There is very high support, uh, nearly 80%,

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