Canada has drawn worldwide attention for their increasingly widespread allowance and usage of “medical assistance in dying,” also known as MAID or assisted suicide.
But Alberta, the most conservative province in the country, is considering a bill to ensure federal laws in Canada do not expand to the mentally ill.
Bill 18, introduced last month, is entitled the “Safeguards for Last Resort Termination of Life Act,” according to a webpage from the government of Alberta.
The legislation would “set out Alberta’s regulatory framework for MAID and will provincially address gaps in the current federal system where there is a lack of protection for vulnerable individuals.”
In particular, those with a mental illness would be protected “should the federal expansion come into effect in 2027,” a move which the province opposes.
Bill 18 would “limit MAID eligibility in Alberta to individuals 18 and over with capacity to make their own health care decisions whose natural death has been determined by a physician or nurse practitioner as being reasonably foreseeable.”
That includes all of “Track 1 MAID,” under which patients are deemed likely to die within 12 months.
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