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Chairperson's Update - Ending of Life Ethics
Medical Experts and National Organizations Endorse Special Safeguards to Protect Vulnerable Canadians in Right-to-Die Legislation
On March 15, 2016, many of us read a CBC report that a Manitoba court had given permission for a Manitoban to be provided medical aid in dying, also referred to as assisted suicide, and then the next day the media covered an Ontario case. Earlier this month, courts in Alberta and Ontario granted constitutional exemptions. In the province of Quebec, people have been receiving medical aid in dying since December 2015. You may be wonde
Vulnerable Persons Standard
Dear Colleague:
Parliament is currently considering how to implement assisted suicide and euthanasia in Canada. Members are working from a set of recommendations that go far beyond what was considered in the Carter decision. The recommendations would:
Trudeau Government Headed in the Right Direction with Budget 2016
March 23, 2016
For Immediate Release
March 11th A Historic Date for Disability Rights in Canada
March 11 is a notable day in Canadian history, because on March 11, 2010, Canada became the 82nd country to ratify the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), which reaffirms that persons with disabilities enjoy the protection of all human rights. On this day in 2010 disability community members, Steven Estey, CCD International Committee Chairperson, Traci Walters, IL Canada, and Bendina Miller, Canadian Association for Community Living, and then Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon, met with UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon at the UN in New York, to
REPORT OF SPECIAL JOINT COMMITTEE ON PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED DYING DISCRIMINATES AGAINST BLIND CANADIANS
March 1, 2016
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Recommendations Contained in Report of Joint Committee on Physician - Assisted Dying Pose Significant Risk to Vulnerable Canadians
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Toronto, ON, February 25, 2016
CCD Submission to Special Joint Committee on Physician Assisted Dying
January 28, 2016
Protection a Priority of the Supreme Court of Canada
The Supreme Court of Canada in Carter emphasized that there needs to be a balanced system that both enables access by patients to physician-assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia (PAD/VE), and protects persons who are vulnerable and may be induced to commit suicide. The SCC determined that a safeguards system that imposed “stringent limits that are scrupulously monitored and enforced” would achieve this balance.1
"Right to Palliative Care, Vulnerability Assessment & Review Board Key Pillars of PAD/VE Regime" Says Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD)
Media Release
January 28, 2016 │For Immediate Release
SCC Decision Disappoints
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, January 15th, 2016
VULNERABLE PERSONS AT RISK OF ABUSE IN SYSTEM FOR PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE, WITHOUT MORE TIME TO DEVELOP SAFEGUARDS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, January 11th, 2016
Ottawa
