The Quebec government announced last week that people who have conditions like dementia or Alzheimer’s disease will be able make a request for assisted dying before their mental capacity declines.
If passed, the new bill would protect Albertans from being ‘coerced’ into receiving any kind of medical treatment, so long as an individual has the ‘capacity’ to consent and is not likely to cause ‘substantial harm to themselves and others.
Quebec's obstetrics and gynecology association says the discrepancies are not medically based and worry they may prevent medical students from choosing the specialty.
Laws initially intended to compassionately help Canadians avoid suffering a painful death have metastasized into policies facilitating suicides of other Canadians seeking death to escape a painful life.
In a video posted to social media on Wednesday, the premier outlined plans to bring legislation next year to ‘ensure that professional regulatory bodies are limited to regulating their members professional competence and conduct and not their speech.’
