Conservative MP Ed Fast says he will be introducing a private member’s bill that seeks to repeal the planned extension of Canada’s medically assisted suicide laws to include individuals whose sole medical condition is mental illness.
Fast made the announcement in Ottawa on March 6 during a press conference in which he was joined by his party’s leader, Pierre Poilievre, who voiced his support for Fast’s planned Bill C-314, also called the Mental Health Protection Act.
Fast said the federal government has moved “too far and too fast” with its medical assistance in dying (MAiD) legislation and says his bill will “reverse and revoke the inclusion of the mentally ill under Canada’s MAiD regime.”…