Bill C-39
An Act to amend An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying)
Bill C-39 has received Royal Assent and is now law. This bill is from the 44th Parliament, 1st session.
Other Bills Numbered C-39
Bill numbers are reused for different bills each new session. This bill number appeared in 11 sessions:
An Act to amend An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying)
An Act to amend the Criminal Code (unconstitutional provisions) and to make consequential amendments to other Acts
An Act for granting to Her Majesty certain sums of money for the federal public administration for the financial year ending March 31, 2015
An Act to provide for the continuation and resumption of rail service operations
An Act to amend the Corrections and Conditional Release Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts
An Act to amend the Judges Act
An Act to amend the Canada Grain Act, chapter 22 of the Statutes of Canada, 1998 and chapter 25 of the Statutes of Canada, 2004
An Act for granting to Her Majesty certain sums of money for the federal public administration for the financial year ending March 31, 2007
An Act to amend the Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act and to enact An Act respecting the provision of funding for diagnostic and medical equipment
An Act to amend the Members of Parliament Retiring Allowances Act and the Parliament of Canada Act
An Act to replace the Yukon Act in order to modernize it and to implement certain provisions of the Yukon Northern Affairs Program Devolution Transfer Agreement, and to repeal and make amendments to other Acts
Division Votes (0)
No recorded division votes found for this bill.
Parliamentary Debates (93)
Speeches in the House of Commons that mention Bill C-39.
Government Orders
…ak here today to an important bill. We have to ask ourselves: why are we here this evening debating Bill C-39? What brought us to this place? What brought us to this place was a government, once again, that had acted completely irresponsibly and with great overreach, ignoring the experts, ignoring Parliament…
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Madam Speaker, I partially answered that question in my speech. I am voting in favour of Bill C-39, which will provide for an extension of one year. I think the government needs to sit back, take a pause and listen to what the experts and Canadians are saying. Is this legislation they really want?…
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…al assistance in dying and also opposed to any expansion thereof, but I will be voting in favour of Bill C-39, because what it would do is delay the imminent move the Liberal government wants to make, which is to extend MAID to those with mental illnesses. When MAID first came to this House and was presented…
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…ouse of Commons to represent my beautiful community of Peterborough—Kawartha. Today we are debating Bill C-39, an act to amend the Criminal Code in terms of medical assistance in dying, which I will refer to as MAID for the remainder of this speech, and extend the exclusion of persons living with mental illn…
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… extension that goes way too far. I rise today in this House as someone who will definitely support Bill C-39 to delay the extension of MAID to those with mental illness. With that pause and delay, I hope the government will take advantage of that time to finally put in place adequate safeguards to protect o…
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Madam Speaker, I am pleased to be able to join this debate. The underlying legislation of Bill C-39 is very simple. The government is simply asking that it be given more time to introduce safeguards, guidelines and professional practices that would allow assisted deaths to be administered in such a…
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…ker, I guess I am troubled by the trajectory of the MAID discussion and MAID legislation. I am glad Bill C-39 is here to delay this a bit more. The member talked about how he predicted the slippery slope. Where else could this go?
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… from society about the meaning and value of their lives. Specifically, the House is today debating Bill C-39, a bill that would extend the coming into force of this heinous reality for another year. I support Bill C-39, because I will support any measure that further delays the coming into force of this hor…
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Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for his effort. That said, if Bill C-39 were withdrawn, on March 17, mental disorders would not be excluded from medical assistance in dying. It is important to know what we are talking about. Also, I do not know on what authority my colle…
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Madam Speaker, it is important to outline what we are talking about here today: Bill C-39. Currently, due to Bill C-7, the Criminal Code explicitly states that, when it comes to MAID, mental illness is not to be considered an illness, disease or disability. However, when Liberals passed B…
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