Dr. Trudo Lemmens at the Medical Assistance in Dying Committee

On November 21st, 2023. See this statement in context.

November 21st, 2023 / 6:55 p.m.

Professor, Scholl Chair, Health Law and Policy, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, As an Individual

I urge parliamentary committee members to look at the submissions they received. We submitted something.

I think there is nothing in Carter, certainly not in Carter, that explicitly states that we have to legalize it. In fact, the Supreme Court explicitly excluded mental illness from its reasons.

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