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• Collaboration between House of Commons, Senate on assisted dying bill praised by senator

  Gold said the government responded respectfully and thoughtfully to the Senate's amendments, rejecting two but building on three others.

  Canada

  Mar 15, 2021
  
• Canadian senators pass amended assisted dying bill after days of debate

  A revised version of Bill C-7 has been passed by the Senate by a vote of 66-19, with three abstentions.

  Canada

  Feb 17, 2021
  
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• MPs must decide whether to accept or reject Senate amendments to assisted dying bill

  For now, Justice Minister David Lametti's office won't say if the Trudeau government is willing to accept any of the amendments.

  Canada

  Feb 14, 2021
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• Lametti questions Conservatives’ motives as debate over assisted dying bill drags on

  Conservatives have been talking out the clock on Bill C-7, which would expand access to medically assisted death to people who are suffering intolerably but not near death.

  Canada

  Dec 9, 2020
• O’Toole says Tories are prepared to debate assisted dying bill around the clock

  Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole had served notice a few hours earlier that his party will continue to talk out the clock on Bill C-7.

  Canada

  Dec 8, 2020
• Canadian Senators mull how far to go to protect charter rights in assisted dying bill

  There was a strong message conveyed to cabinet ministers last week as senators grilled them on the Trudeau government's bill to expand access to medical assistance in dying.

  Canada

  Nov 29, 2020
• ‘Discriminatory’: Psychiatrists slam exclusion of mental illness in assisted dying bill

  The federal bill revising the rules on medically assisted death in Canada has raised the ire of the Canadian Psychiatric Association over the proposed law's explicit rejection of mental illness as grounds for ending a patient's life.

  Canada

  Nov 22, 2020