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Amy Hamm: MAID for mental illness should be put out of its misery

We do not need a system that will cause those suffering from mental illness to give up hope

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In its newly released report, Canada’s special joint committee on medical assistance in dying (MAID) issued a single, perfect recommendation: “That the Government of Canada amend the Criminal Code to indefinitely exclude persons whose sole underlying medical condition is a mental illness from eligibility for medical assistance in dying.”

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Conservative MP Tamara Jansen then tabled Bill C-218, which seeks to do just that: if passed, it will amend the Criminal Code “to provide that a mental disorder is not a grievous and irremediable medical condition for which a person could receive medical assistance in dying.”

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This is a moral victory for our country. Since 2021, when Bill C-7 was passed with a sunset clause that would enable mentally ill people to seek MAID at a future date (which has since been delayed twice and currently sits at........

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