What is in the MAiD bill?

The reintroduced Bill proposes to:

1. Remove the requirement for a person's natural death to be reasonably foreseeable in order to be eligible for MAID
2. Introduce a two-track approach to procedural safeguards based on whether or not a person's natural death is reasonably foreseeable
   • a existing safeguards will be maintained and certain ones will be eased for eligible persons whose death is reasonably foreseeable
   • new and modified safeguards will be introduced for eligible persons whose death is not reasonably foreseeable
3. Exclude eligibility for individuals suffering solely from mental illness
4. Allow the waiver of final consent for eligible persons whose natural death is reasonably foreseeable and who may lose capacity to consent before MAID can be provided
5. Expand data collection through the federal monitoring regime to provide a more complete picture of MAID in Canada

Read more about the re-introduced MAiD bill.