I am so surprised and pleased. I think because a larger number of people have now dealt with a dying family member, it's opened up their eyes.

SCC reverses course on doctor-assisted death



OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada has unanimously struck down the ban on providing a doctor-assisted death to mentally competent but suffering and "irremediable" patients.

The historic and groundbreaking decision from the country's top court sweeps away the existing law and gives Parliament a year to draft new legislation that recognizes the right of clearly consenting adults who are enduring intolerable suffering to seek medical help ending their lives.

The judgment, which is unsigned to reflect the unanimous institutional weight of the court, says the current ban infringes on all three of the life, liberty and security of person provisions in the Charter, and it does not limit physician-assisted death to those suffering a terminal illness.


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IMO, it's the way laws are being written rather than the actual contents of the laws. The ideologically driven Harper CONservatives seem incapable of drafting proper legislation.
It makes the SCC's job a whole lot easier.

oskar576 wrote:

IMO, it's the way laws are being written rather than the actual contents of the laws. The ideologically driven Harper CONservatives seem incapable of drafting proper legislation.
It makes the SCC's job a whole lot easier.

That's because they draft ideology rather than law. Half the time they are told in advance that their laws won't stand-up in the Supreme Court but they stick their heads in the sand and go ahead anyway.