Minister of Health Mark Holland rises during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024.
Federal Health Minister Mark Holland says Ottawa will not be contesting Quebec's law to allow advance requests for assisted dying, also known as MAID, as it begins Canada-wide consultations on making changes to the Criminal Code.Minister of Health Mark Holland says he cannot ‘direct a province how it's going to administer its judicial system.’ Starting on Oct.
The province passed a law updating its assisted-dying legislation last year, but delayed accepting advance requests so that the Criminal Code could be amended. Monday, Holland said his grandmother had lived with Alzheimer's for 15 years after she was diagnosed when he was a boy. "And I can tell you as a family that the early stages of Alzheimer's were still a period of real joy for me as a kid because I still got to spend time with my grandmother and as that disease progressed, she became in a bedridden state … and that that was deeply painful for our family. And so I think that we need time to have a conversation about those issues."
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