10 years on, Canada’s MAID program has become a cautionary tale
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10 years on, Canada’s MAID program has become a cautionary tale
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17 JUNE 2026
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On June 17, 2016, a bill legalizing euthanasia in Canada came into effect. Doctors and nurses assisting death in compliance with that law could not be charged with homicide.
Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould, then the justice minister and attorney general, stated at the time that “for Canadians who are not declining toward death, the focus of medicine remains on improving life, not ending it.” Indeed, among the few countries that permit euthanasia and assisted suicide, this end-of-…
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