A new Quebec law that mandates palliative care facilities to provide medical assistance in dying has drawn criticism from euthanasia opponents and a palliative care advocate.
Bill 11 to expand medical assistance in dying (MAiD) passed in Quebec’s national assembly on June 7. 
In a June 5 post online, Living with Dignity (Vivre Dans La Dignité), a non-profit opposed to euthanasia and assisted suicide, decried the bill’s “profoundly unfair treatment of palliative care hospices, particularly those not wishing to offer MAiD.”
The organization said it was even more “deeply disturbed” by a late amendment to the bill. Sonia Belanger, minister for health and seniors, added the provision that a hospice “cannot refuse to receive a person for the sole reason that the latter has submitted a request for medical assistance in dying” and created a deadline of six months for palliative care homes to comply….