Ms. Sharon Harper at the Justice and Human Rights Committee

On February 14th, 2023. See this statement in context.

February 14th, 2023 / 8:10 p.m.

Director General, Health Care Programs and Policy Directorate, Department of Health

I'm going to answer in English, if you don't mind.

We actually expect the demand to be quite low, based on international comparisons. For 2021 and 2022, we've been able to determine that of all of what we call track 2 MAID cases, only 2.2% involved death that was not reasonably foreseeable. Now, we expect that, based on the cases in the Netherlands, where the number was 1.5% of the assisted-dying cases, those actually involved psychiatric conditions.

We expect something similar with respect to our MAID law in terms of track 2 cases.

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