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In order to pass Bill 52 before the Carter decision takes effect, the Quebec government said it was not euthanasia because it would take place in a medical framework.

Consequently, faced with the mass refusal by Quebec health care professionals to participate in what has been called "medical aid in dying" – almost unanimously by those most affected by the issue, the palliative care professionals – the government is in the difficult position of seeing its law virtually impossible to ...

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The election campaign is moving ahead and politicians are firing out their promises. Yet despite their life or death implication for all Canadians, the issues of assisted suicide and euthanasia remain taboo!  The next government will have as a first duty the enormous responsibility of passing a law to regulate assisted suicide in time for the Supreme Court’s February 6, 2016 deadline.

Moreover, the aggressive reaction of Quebec politicians against palliative care professionals who refuse to kill people under their care ...

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Following the announcement by the Quebec College of Physicians of the September 10^th publication of its first guide to euthanasia intended for doctors, the 29 palliative care centres in Quebec have announced that they will all avail themselves of the exemption provided in the law for their institutions, saying no to "medically assisted death".

In their wake, the CHUM also stated that euthanasia will not be offered in its palliative care department. "Everyone was against it, it was unanimous. It ...

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