Op-Ed by Professor Trudo Lemmens and JD student Leah Krakowitz-Broker: Why the federal government should rethink MAID

In an op-ed for CBC Opinion, published Nov. 10, Professor Trudo Lemmens, Scholl Chair in Health Law and Policy and JD student Leah Krakowitz-Broker, write why the new medical assistance in dying (MAID) proposal represents a deadly form of discrimination against people with disabilities or chronic illness: 

"To meet the twice-renewed deadline imposed by the Quebec Superior Court in the Truchon case, the federal government is trying to push its new medical assistance in dying (MAID) bill through Parliament before year's end. Parliament should reject the key premise of this new legislation, and ask government to go back to the drawing board and start again.

The ruling in the Truchon case said the federal MAID law's requirement that death be "reasonably foreseeable" infringed on Charter rights."

Lemmens was a member of the Council of Canadian Academies Expert Panel on Medical Assistance in Dying as well as an expert witness for the federal Attorney General in the Truchon case.

Read the full op-ed at CBC Opinion