Alberta moves to drastically reduce access to medically assisted dying
Global News
The UCP government introduced a bill stipulating only those likely to die of natural causes within a year would be eligible for medical assistance in dying.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s government took steps Wednesday to drastically restrict who’s eligible for medical assistance in dying.
Smith’s United Conservative Party government introduced a bill that, if passed, would limit medical assistance in dying, better known as MAID, to those likely to die of natural causes within a year.
Those under 18 would still be prohibited regardless of condition, in line with current federal rules.
Smith said the federal rules are missing the mark.
“I think that we’re failing in our duty to give people hope,” Smith told reporters before the bill was introduced in the house.
The major limitation in Alberta’s bill resembles how Canada’s MAID program began in 2016.
Restricting access to MAID unless it was reasonably foreseeable that someone would die was ruled unconstitutional by a superior court judge in Quebec.
Ottawa then expanded eligibility in 2021.
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