The report on assisted dying said since becoming legal on June 17, 2016, Canada's health-care costs have dropped $86.9 million.

The Liberal government last week introduced a bill that would amend the law on medical assistance in dying to bring it into compliance with a Quebec court ruling last fall.

Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole says he'll allow MPs free votes on two bills that are controversial within his party.

The government has until Dec. 18 to amend the law to comply with a Quebec court ruling last fall, which found it was unconstitutional to allow only those whose natural death is ``reasonably foreseeable'' to be able to get medical help to end their suffering.

For those deemed to be near death, the government is proposing to drop the requirement that a person must wait 10 days after being approved for an assisted death before receiving the procedure.

The man's wife maintains that her husband's wish to die is based on anxiety and delusions.

The man says he is near the end of his life due to advanced chronic disease, but his wife maintains his wish to die is based on anxiety and delusions.

Justice Elizabeth Van den Eynden intends to render her decision as quickly as possible, although she didn't indicate when it would be issued.

A Quebec court found parts of the law unconstitutional last fall, ordering the government to change a provision saying that someone's death has to be ``reasonably foreseeable'' to be eligible to end his or her life with a doctor's help.

A Quebec court has given the federal government more time to amend its assisted-dying legislation.