Medical Assistance in Dying committee  I don't have your experience, obviously, but having gone through this with people with whom I'm extremely close, I watched them choose to have MAID as an option. I watched them change their mind about the date, in one case to push it out and in one case to bring it closer, and th

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Thank you very much. My questions are for Jennifer and Mike, and obviously about their son Markus. You have used the word "obliged" on several occasions. Did any medical professional—a doctor, a nurse or a MAID provider—come in and say to you that you must do this, you should

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Right, as they do with the other options. They have to lay out for patients all of the options to consider. Beyond that, did somebody come in and say, “You are doing the wrong thing; we don't think your personal or religious views are acceptable; we think that the best course o

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Right. That's what my colleagues and I are trying to establish here. It's a very, very important principle that MAID is about choice. If you choose not to access MAID, nobody will ever challenge you on that as parents or from the point of view of your son Markus. Nobody can force

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Thank you very much, Chair.

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  I'm sorry, but I have to ask you to clarify. You said, “because of track two”. They're dying because of track two. They must qualify for MAID; otherwise, you can't access MAID.

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Okay. I guess this is the thing. When giving testimony at a Senate-House of Commons committee, we have to be very careful of the language that is used. If you can provide evidence that people are dying in institutional settings, that's one thing, but we cannot have on the recor

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  I have unmuted and I hope you can hear me. As you can see, there were technical issues. I'm sorry, but because of that, I am not sure exactly who said this. However, I think the message is the same: Disabled persons “are dying en masse” because of track two MAID. Again, one of

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  I raised it in part, because even provinces like my own have taken the information about MAID off the 811 system. Are you finding that it is more difficult for vulnerable people, people who are disabled, perhaps the communities in prison, to even get basic information about the c

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Thank you very much.

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Thank you. My question, too, is for Professor Shaw. It is my understanding that, given the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, human rights law and even common decency, to put it that way, disabled people cannot be denied or excluded from access to medical assistance in dying. I th

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