Canada suspends plans to expand assisted dying to people with mental illness :
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Canada Indefinitely Suspends Planned Mental-Illness Assisted Dying ExpansionPeople with mental illness alone will not qualify by March 2027; proposed legislation would formalize the indefinite suspension.
- The government plans to introduce legislation in coming weeks that would suspend the expansion indefinitely.
- The bill would also allow advance consent for patients with progressing incurable illnesses, while provinces would have the final say.
- A federal court case challenging the earlier delay remains active; Fraser does not rule out future Supreme Court consideration.
- A parliamentary committee previously recommended indefinite exclusion, but some members issued a dissenting report.
while there is not a perfect consensus on this issue, we believe this is the correct approach at this particular time— Sean Fraser, Canada's justice minister, announced the decision to pause the expansion of medically assisted dying to people whose sole condition is mental illness, citing a lack of consensus on eligibility.
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