The bills on assisted dying and palliative care
return to the French National Assembly on Monday, February 16th, with a solemn
vote expected on the 24th. Alongside these debates, we are sharing with you today
statements from the French ...
We are
starting the year with encouraging news. First, a majority of French senators
rejected the article on “assisted dying” which, according to French newspaper Le
Monde, set out “the conditions required to access a system of assisted
suicide or euthanasia.” ...
Last Monday, we sent a brief on your behalf to
the Commission on Institutions in response to Bill 1, the 2025
Constitutional Act on Québec. We cannot wait to share it with you! The public hearings will begin on
December 4th, ...
A short introduction to this edition, in which
we look back on recent news, including a powerful column by Mylène Moisan in Le
Soleil and the troubling case of Siska De Ruysscher, a 25-year-old Belgian
woman whose story directly relates to ...
Like many of you, we were shocked last Thursday to see that the first announcements about a Quebec constitution mentioned “protecting Quebecers’ right to medical assistance in dying.” The proposed legislation refers instead to “end-of-life care,” but this ...