The Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD), a national disability rights organization, shared a press release vehemently denouncing the Trudeau government’s re-introduction of Bill C-7, a bill which extends access to Medical Aid in Dying to people who are experiencing intolerable suffering as a result of illness or disability, but whose death is not reasonably foreseeable. The bill was first introduced in early February before the COVID-19 pandemic hit Canada.
“With…evidence of systemic discrimination against people with disabilities mounting daily, the Trudeau government’s decision to move forward with this bill without adding safeguards to prevent marginalized Canadians from being driven to seek assistance to die because they cannot get assistance to live is evidence of a head-in-the-sand mentality that endangers the lives of Canadians with disabilities,” said Dr. Heidi Janz, Chair of the CCD’s Ending-of-Life Ethics Committee.
For further information, contact: Dr. Heidi Janz [email protected]