@cbcnews: Canada is expected to expand its medical assistance in dying (MAID) policy to include eligibility for people with mental disorders as the sole underlying condition. It’s a controversial change that would put the country on track to become one of the most permissive euthanasia jurisdictions in the world. Many psychiatrists are petitioning against the expansion, including the psychiatric chairs of every medical school in Canada. But other practitioners argue that people with mental disorders should have the same right to choose to die. Over the years, Justice Minister David Lametti has said he supports the expansion, but more study is needed before it can happen. “Let’s not forget that mental illness is illness… people suffering from a mental disorder are suffering,” he told The Fifth Estate’s Gillian Findlay. “And this in the view of a person who’s capable of making that decision.” Medically assisted death became legal in Canada in 2016 following the Supreme Court of Canada’s Carter decision that said the ban on medically assisted dying contravened the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The original MAID legislation said that a person’s death has to be "reasonably foreseeable" to be considered. In 2021, the law dropped that requirement, allowing any Canadian 18 and older to be considered for an assisted death as long as their condition was in an “advanced state of irreversible decline” and their suffering “can’t be relieved under conditions they consider acceptable.” (Video and reporting: The Fifth Estate) #MAID #AssistedDeath #Canada #HealthCare #CBC #CBCNews #CBCFifthEstate #TheFifthEstate #AskCBCNews

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