{"id":14023,"date":"2022-03-09T04:56:30","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T09:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/?p=14023"},"modified":"2022-03-09T05:00:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T10:00:24","slug":"maid-and-mental-illness-credibility-federal-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/maid-and-mental-illness-credibility-federal-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"MAID and mental illness: credibility at stake for a federal committee"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Published<\/span> on March 2, an open letter<\/a> signed by Mona Gupta and Jocelyn Downie criticizes the recommendation of the Quebec Select Committee on the Evolution of the Act respecting end-of-life care not to extend access to medical assistance in dying to those whose only medical problem is a mental disorder.<\/span><\/div><\/div>
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While the authors may disagree with the Quebec Commission, we find it troubling that Dr. Gupta, who chairs the Government of Canada’s Expert Panel on MAID & Mental Illness, would express herself in this way just days before the release of their report.<\/span>
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The credibility of the committee’s work is at stake.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
We support the Quebec Select Committee’s work excluding MAiD for those whose sole condition is mental health. Facebook version of this post.<\/span><\/div><\/div>
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More details on the Expert Panel on MAID and Mental Illness + its members <\/span>https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/health-canada\/corporate\/about-health-canada\/public-engagement\/external-advisory-bodies\/expert-panel-maid-mental-illness.html<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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”Those experts have been proceeding on schedule and are expected to issue their report by March 17” via The Canadian Press News <\/span>https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/politics\/article-federal-government-in-no-rush-to-conduct-overdue-parliamentary-review<\/a><\/p>\n

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