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Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Very quickly, most of those people don't want to be in long-term care. They are there because the home care system has ceilings on what it will fund. We had the tragic case in B.C. of Sean Tagert who just wanted to stay in his home for his remaining years with his son. He needed

November 22nd, 2022Committee meeting

Dr. Tim Stainton

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  I'm going to disagree a little bit with Jessica. The premise has always been balancing the protection of the vulnerable and autonomy. On one level, yes, who are we to decide for anyone else? The trouble is—

November 22nd, 2022Committee meeting

Dr. Tim Stainton

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Sure, and I thank you for the question. As I've said, I struggle to see what safeguards there could be, beyond restoring the reasonably foreseeable death criteria. There are some things that could be done. In the past it's been recommended that for track two there be an indepe

November 22nd, 2022Committee meeting

Dr. Tim Stainton

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Okay. Certainly, if we got to a point where it was clear that people had the support they needed to make the choices that we all value, and that they had the money they needed to lead a life, then I would have a lot less reservations about them making the choice, as I would abou

November 22nd, 2022Committee meeting

Dr. Tim Stainton

November 22nd, 2022Committee meeting

Dr. Tim Stainton

November 22nd, 2022Committee meeting

Dr. Tim Stainton

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Thank you for the opportunity to clarify. What I said was that the comparison was with the existential threat to disabled people. I did not compare what we're doing to what the Nazis did. I compared the threat to the lives of disabled people. You're quite right that they're not

November 22nd, 2022Committee meeting

Dr. Tim Stainton

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  No. I've been quite clear about that. If I felt MAID could be contained, I don't have an issue with it. I believed from the beginning, and we were warned, that it couldn't be contained. I think those fears have been borne out in spades, and actually much more quickly than I fear

November 22nd, 2022Committee meeting

Dr. Tim Stainton

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Thank you for that question. As I said, I do not believe there are safeguards that can be put in place at this point that will address those issues without bringing back the reasonably foreseeable death criteria. We could certainly do a much better job of data collection and mon

November 22nd, 2022Committee meeting

Dr. Tim Stainton

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  To the first point, I would agree that without reasonably foreseeable criteria, there are no safeguards that will prevent the kind of things we're talking about. They just aren't there. I've written about this in several publications. Yes, I've spoken to the UN special rapporteu

November 22nd, 2022Committee meeting

Dr. Tim Stainton

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and members of the committee, for the opportunity to speak to you tonight. I have reflected many times on the process surrounding Bill C-7. The failure to appeal the Truchon decision was shocking given the significance and scope of its impact. As Bill C-7

November 22nd, 2022Committee meeting

Dr. Tim Stainton