Canada urged to ‘indefinitely exclude’ MAID for mental illness

Euthanasia was legalized in Canada on June 17, 2016. In 2021, the law was amended to allow MAID for people whose deaths are not reasonably foreseeable. However, Bill C-7 also added a provision that mental illness not be considered an eligibility for MAID, a provision that was set to be repealed in March 2023, but was later pushed back to March 2024, and then a third time, to March 2027.