Mr. Speaker, the second petition has 138 signatures. It is asking, first, that Parliament continues to reject euthanasia and physician assisted suicide; second, that the present provisions of section 241 of the Criminal Code of Canada which forbids the counselling, procuring, aiding or abetting of a person to commit suicide be enforced vigorously, and, third, that Parliament consider expanding palliative care that would be accessible to all dying persons in Canada.
In the House of Commons on December 2nd, 1994. See this statement in context.