Bill C-7

Routine Proceedings

…tion that Conservatives have held from the beginning. Conservatives opposed the Senate amendment to Bill C-7, which set this proposed expansion in motion. We have consistently echoed the warnings of experts that the expansion cannot be implemented safely. We call on the government to accept the committee's …

Private Members' Business

…ompetent adults whose natural death was reasonably foreseeable. Fourth, in 2021, Parliament adopted Bill C-7, which expanded eligibility for MAID to those whose natural death is not reasonably foreseeable. It also added additional safeguards to address the increased complexity of providing MAID in those sit…

Private Members' Business

… views on the matter. The expert panel on MAID and mental illness, which was mandated by the former Bill C-7, took this analysis further. Its mandate was not to recommend whether eligibility for MAID should be expanded to permit the provision of MAID based on mental illness alone, but rather to recommend pr…

Private Members' Business

…al illness was not a part of the core discussion. It was added in a last-minute Senate amendment to Bill C-7. The implications were not fully considered or understood by the House. Since then, we have learned a lot more. Psychiatrists across Canada, including the chairs of psychiatry at all 17 medical schoo…

Routine Proceedings

… in Canada have expressed opposition to the expansions contained in the government's previous bill, Bill C-7. The petitioners therefore call on the government to protect all Canadians whose natural death is not reasonably foreseeable by prohibiting medical assistance in dying for those whose prognosis for n…

Government Orders

moved that Bill C-7, An Act for granting to His Majesty certain sums of money for the federal public administration for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2026, be now read the first time and printed. (Motions deemed adop…

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… the orders of the House and really limiting debate. They have done it before. They have done it on Bill C-7 and Bill C-14, the two medical assistance in dying bills. At different stages of those bill, they both programmed and then shut down debate on them. I have seen, plenty of times, allocation motions b…

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…lic.” When similar comments were made by the Canadian Press in its report on the leak of the former Bill C-7 respecting medical assistance in dying, Mr. Speaker, your immediate predecessor had this to say when finding a prima facie contempt in his March 10, 2020 ruling: Everything indicates that the act was…

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…illness. Nevertheless, the government voted against the bill, sticking to its original plan, as per Bill C-7, to expand access to MAID to Canadians who are healthy except for their mental disorder. If it were not for the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying's tabling, on January 29, 2024, …

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…eparing the health care system, and also what more needs to be done. In 2021, as required by former Bill C-7, an expert panel examined the issue of permitting MAID where the sole underlying condition is a mental illness. It concluded that the existing legal framework of eligibility criteria and safeguards i…

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…f multiple debates that I have now been a part of. I have now seen this debate go from Bill C-14 to Bill C-7 to Bill C-62, and the attempts by my hon. colleague from Abbotsford, who, I think, tried to do right by vulnerable Canadians all across Canada to make sure that we would not see an expansion of the M…

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Madam Speaker, my colleague is quite right. With Bill C-7, but for the passage of Bill C-62, the impact would be profound on our health care system, on individuals suffering with mental illness and on the message we send Canadians suffering with mental illn…

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…would protect vulnerable Canadians, and when the then minister appeared at the justice committee on Bill C-7, which expanded medical assistance in dying, he assured us it was quite constitutional. Then, the next day, he was back, assuring us that without the expansion to those suffering from mental illness,…

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…dering MAID for economic reasons. Individuals, as we heard at our justice committee when we studied Bill C-7, who did not wish to have MAID were consistently pressured to considered it. On this side of the aisle, Conservatives have chosen the path of hope rather than harm, and we will continue to do so, but…

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…s again, we will never come back to this debate. I think that is irresponsible. We first dealt with Bill C-7 in 2021. That is already three years ago. What has the government done in three years? It came up with the current bill, which says they will ensure the debate will never be over. We think that is ir…

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…erative diseases and advance requests, unlike Quebec’s law. All this is happening three years after Bill C-7 was passed. Regardless of what other parties choose to do, we continue and will continue to ask that the Criminal Code be aligned with Quebec’s Act Respecting End-of-Life Care by allowing advance req…

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…de the policy decision to expand eligibility for MAID. This led to Parliament’s enactment of former Bill C-7 in 2021, which expanded eligibility for MAID to persons whose natural death is not reasonably foreseeable. This resulted in the removal of the eligibility criterion that a person’s death be reasonabl…

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…the New Democrats actually also voted against what I thought was an ill-advised Senate amendment to Bill C-7. There is plenty of blame to be thrown around. I understand that. I have done more than my fair share this week against the Liberals, but the fact of the matter is that we are at a moment right now w…

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…something had to be done. However, this reckless expansion that came after the Senate amendments to Bill C-7 goes way beyond this. No court was calling upon Parliament or forcing Parliament to expand the eligibility of MAID to those whose sole underlying health condition is mental illness.

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…uchon case as an opportunity to open up and expand access to medical assistance in dying and tabled Bill C-7 in the fall of 2020. That was their second mistake. As I said before, I support MAID for competent adults who are grievously and irremediably ill and suffering cruelly from intolerable pain and angui…