Canada now has same-day MAiD and it's not easy-to-read about. Thanks to Ontario's death review committee for doing this work @TrudoLemmens
Isabel Grant
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Isabel Grant
@igrantubc
Law Professor specializing in criminal and mental health law. VAW and disability advocate.
Vancouver
Joined January 2011
- Replying to @RightToLifeUKShe obviously has no idea how difficult it is to get an injunction and how expensive. And how do you do that when all the medical records surrounding the death are "private". And how do you do it if you don't even know your loved one has been scheduled to die?
- "I feel obliged to tell you that I am not religious. I oppose the bill from a secular social-justice perspective. Opposing assisted suicide does not make me cruel, evil or lacking in compassion – although I’m regularly called these things" theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
- "As the rest of the world stands aghast at Canada’s euthanasia,… advocates of euthanasia will continue to sell it as something progressive, cool and modern – rather than as a cost-saving measure that frees up hospital beds, by eradicating the least convenient in society. "The young woman at the centre of this euthanasia infomercial tried for years to get effective treatment for her non-terminal but painful condition. She was approved for #euthanasia in just weeks. Is that really "a most beautiful exist"? spiked-online.com/2022/12/03/sel…
- It is heartbreaking to see disability organizations having to post this kind of announcement.Assisted suicide used to be known as culpable homicide, now its Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD). Some MAiD doctors call killing someone "providing" for them. Now, due to MAiD, we've had to update our "no solicitation" sign, cause we're not buying what they are trying to sell.
- When disability rights litigation is initiated, I wish just once media would focus their stories on people with disabilities who actually want to live, and may be struggling to do so, not digging up all the stories of people who want to die which gets more clicks.
- Delighted to finally have this article published on why track 2 MAiD is fundamentally discriminatory against people with disabilities and contrary to section 7 and 15 of the Charter. <mjlh.mcgill.ca/publications/v…>
- What woman is ever going to come forward and report sexual assault after watching these daily media accounts of this complainant's misery.
- Whatever your thoughts on assisted suicide, this article should frighten you. Denied care, given death: Ontario report details concerns over same-day MAID canadianaffairs.news/2025/04/16/dea… via @CDNAffairs
- Replying to @yuanyi_zShe clearly hasn't read the Criminal Code "that illness, disease or disability or that state of decline causes them enduring physical or psychological suffering that is intolerable to them and that cannot be relieved under conditions that they consider acceptable."
- "No ongoing risk to the public" is almost always code for don't worry he only killed his family."...victims were a man, woman and two children." We've seen this too many times before - there are likely only 3 victims. 4 people found dead in southwestern Ontario town of Harrow windsor.ctvnews.ca/four-victims-d…
- Replying to @ianhanomansingI hope you will talk to some Indigenous people about their views on having suicide made more readily available in their communities which have disproportionate rates of disability. @BCANDS1
- Pass Bill C-7 first and then study MAiD – doesn't that seem the wrong way around? Especially given that they failed to comply with the study requirements of C-14
- I'm glad they've come out and said this but the question is why didn't they know sooner – we certainly told them this would happen. It was entirely foreseeable.'It's being abused:' Group that led campaign for MAID is now calling for safeguards nationalpost.com/news/group-tha… via @nationalpost
