Mr. Speaker, the medical assistance in dying bill is not consistent with the Carter decision.
Rather than act courageously to comply with the court's ruling, the government decided to wash its hands of the whole thing. People who are gravely ill and suffering will bear the burden of challenging this law right up to the Supreme Court or going on a hunger strike to fulfill the reasonably foreseeable natural death criteria.
Why is the government so lacking in courage and compassion as to place that burden on people struggling with intolerable suffering?