Madam Speaker, I rise to present a petition in which the petitioners call on the government to permanently scrap its expansion of MAID for when mental illness is the sole underlying condition. The petitioners characterize this as reckless. They note that it is impossible to determine whether someone with a mental illness will get better. It is impossible for clinicians to distinguish a rational MAID request from one motivated by suicidal ideation; therefore, this planned expansion would put some of the most vulnerable Canadians' lives at risk.
In the House of Commons on October 7th, 2024. See this statement in context.