Justice committee  I think we have to read the provisions of the legislation consistently with each other. If we look at the definition provided of “medical assistance in dying” in proposed section 241.1, it's actually a defined term in the legislation. It makes it a lot easier to draft the rest of

Justice committee  There is jurisprudence under the Criminal Code that has interpreted the concept of abetting an offence to take place. Though in the dictionary definition “abetting” can mean “aiding” and also “encouraging”, the interpretation that the courts have most consistently given to the wo

Justice committee  They're definitely quite similar concepts. There is a definition of “counselling” in section 22 of the Criminal Code, I believe, which contains some more verbs and concepts that are quite similar to “counselling”. Counselling might require something a little more pointed than enc