Why Alberta is proposing a ban on ‘advance requests’ for MAID

While more than 2,000 advance requests for MAID have been approved, few of these have been seen through to completion in the 17 months since advance request forms became available. Jasmin Lemieux-Lefebvre, a researcher with Quebec non-profit group Living with Dignity, says he’s only aware of two cases where advance requests have led to doctor-assisted suicides, and doesn’t know the details of either case.