Parliament Hill is shown in Ottawa on Wednesday, March 11, 2020. OTTAWA -- Conservative MPs are refusing to be rushed into a vote on assisted dying legislation, despite a looming court-imposed deadline.
But Conservative MPs talked out the clock, with a number of them calling the deadline "artificial" and the urgency "manufactured." The bill would drop the proviso that only those whose natural death is reasonably foreseeable are entitled to seek medical assistance in dying . But it would retain the foreseeable death concept to set up two different eligibility tracks, one that makes it easier for those near death to receive MAID while those who are not near death would face more restrictive criteria.
That review was to have started in June but has been delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Conservative MPs noted that the government further delayed matters by proroguing Parliament in August for six weeks. At one point, Liberal MP Kevin Lamoureux, parliamentary secretary to the government House leader, asked if it was the Conservatives' intention "to see us continuing to debate this indefinitely."
Alberta Conservative MP Damien Kurek said he finds it "troubling that they seem to have manufactured a level of urgency."
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
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