Mr. Speaker, I rise to present a petition in which the petitioners are calling on the Liberals to permanently scrap their reckless planned expansion of MAID, where mental illness is the sole underlying disorder.
The petitioners note that vulnerable persons would be put at unique risk because it is difficult, if not impossible, to determine irremediability, meaning persons who could get better could have their lives prematurely ended. Secondly, it is difficult, if not impossible, to distinguish between a rational request for MAID and one motivated by suicidal ideation when the request is in the context of a sole underlying mental illness.