Mr. Speaker, I rise to present a petition. The petitioners are calling on the government to scrap its reckless expansion of MAID to those suffering solely from an underlying mental health condition.
The petitioners note that it is impossible to determine whether a mental illness is irremediable, meaning that expanding MAID to those with a mental illness would lead to the deaths of people who could have otherwise gotten better. Second, it is impossible for clinicians to distinguish a rational MAID request from one motivated by suicidality. Accordingly, such an expansion, the petitioners note, would recklessly put some of the most vulnerable persons at risk.