Jacques Boissinot La Presse canadienne The bill will be tabled by the Minister for Health and Seniors, Sonia Bélanger.
The Minister for Health and Seniors, Sonia Bélanger, will table a new version of the bill on Thursday to expand medical assistance in dying (MAID).
At the end of the parliamentary session last June, the legislative text which had been tabled at the end of May by the Minister of Health, Christian Dubé, could not be adopted for lack of time.
The project The bill aimed in particular to provide a framework for advance requests for MAID for people with serious and incurable illnesses leading to incapacity, such as Alzheimer's.
Minister Dubé had withdrawn the article from the legislative text on neuromotor disabilities, described by the opposition as a “surprise”.
More details will follow.
