Bill C-14

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…ying and those who may be put at risk by its legalization. Then, Parliament debated legislation and Bill C-14 was passed in 2016. People whose deaths were reasonably foreseeable, meaning they were dying, and who were suffering intolerable pain could seek medical assistance. Despite widespread reservations, m…

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…en here since the 42nd Parliament, so I have been through the debate on Bill C-7, and the debate on Bill C-14. Bill C-7 was originally the response to the Carter decision rendered by the Supreme Court of Canada. In it, the Supreme Court found that there was a constitutional right to seek an assisted suicide …

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…those with mental illness instead of the government's approach. Going back to 2016, the preamble of Bill C-14 spoke about the vulnerability of persons. It states: Whereas vulnerable persons must be protected from being induced, in moments of weakness, to end their lives It also states: Whereas suicide is a s…

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…l death of another person were unconstitutional. In response, in 2016, our government tabled former Bill C-14, an act to amend the Criminal Code and to make related amendments to other acts regarding medical assistance in dying. The basic purpose of the bill was to give Canadians nearing the end of life who …

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…e, opened up the door to legalized assisted suicide, and the Liberal government then responded with Bill C-14, which restricted MAID, or medical assistance in dying, to those who were at the end of their lives and living in intolerable, grievous pain. We were assured this was not a slippery slope that was in…

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…rable suffering”. That was the basis for creating legal access to medical assistance in dying. When Bill C-14 went through, I tried so hard to put forward amendments saying we have to allow advance directives. It was not right not to allow them for someone who knows they are terminally ill and are facing inc…

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… the most part, I concur with what the member is saying. In the debate that took place in regard to Bill C-14, if the member looks at Hansard he will see that the issue of palliative care and hospice care was huge. Members on both sides of the House understood how important it was that we have that in our co…

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…ent for his speech. I totally agree with him. Perhaps he would agree with me that in the debates on Bill C-14, the government promised to do more for palliative care, if I remember correctly. That was a few years ago. I think those promises have been broken. I would like to hear what my colleague thinks.

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Madam Speaker, when we were looking at Bill C-14 two Parliaments ago, there was a statutory requirement for a review. The government went ahead and introduced Bill C-7 before we ever did that review. It accepted the Senate amendment to its bill bef…

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…he NDP's member on the special joint committee, both in the last Parliament and this one. Back when Bill C-14 was passed, there was a requirement in that act for a statutory review of the legislation. We did have Bill C-7, and the government did accept the Senate amendment, even though it was contrary to its…