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House Hansard - 281

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
February 13, 2024 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 281 - Feb/13/24
Mr. Luc Thériault (Montcalm, BQ)
  • Feb/13/24 2:38:21 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, medical assistance in dying is about freedom of choice. The role of the state is not to decide for the person who is suffering; it is to guarantee the conditions under which people can make a free and informed choice. If someone does not want medical assistance in dying, they can simply not ask for it. The National Assembly is unanimous: Quebec is ready. It has its own legislation. Will the federal government amend the Criminal Code to allow for advance requests for people who are suffering?
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Context: House Hansard - 281 - Feb/13/24
Mr. Luc Thériault (Montcalm, BQ)
  • Feb/13/24 2:39:29 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, Quebec would not have to ask for an exemption if Ottawa had implemented the majority recommendations on advance requests issued a year ago by the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying. Quebec is ready today, and patients should not have to suffer because of the government's inaction. If it does not want to condemn people to suffer needlessly, the federal government has two choices. It must either offer this exemption to the Criminal Code immediately or introduce a bill on advance requests. Will the minister make the humane, compassionate choice?
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Context: House Hansard - 281 - Feb/13/24
Mrs. Claude DeBellefeuille
  • Feb/13/24 4:45:45 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to hear from my colleague who understands the consensus in Quebec. Now, I will ask him to convince his political party to support the Bloc Québécois amendment, which proposes amending the Criminal Code so that service providers cannot be prosecuted for providing MAID to people who made advance requests and obtained that service. I encourage him to speak up and to be a leader in his party to convince his colleagues. Just because the other health ministers from the other provinces and territories are not ready does not mean that Quebec is obligated to move as slowly as them. Quebec is ready to help people who are suffering who want MAID and who request it. I will say it again. I do not know if there are any anglophone MPs here who are wearing their earpieces, but just because a person requests medical assistance in dying does not mean that they will get it.
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Context: House Hansard - 281 - Feb/13/24
Ms. Marie-Hélène Gaudreau
  • Feb/13/24 9:50:15 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, when members talk, they should at least have a basic knowledge of the medical context, of what is happening on the ground. Unfortunately, it is pretty clear that we do not all have the same basic knowledge. I therefore cannot answer my colleague. Does he even know what an advance request is? I hear them talking about euthanasia. We are not talking about the same thing. We need to be on the same planet to have a dialogue. I think we need to look at this in committee. At the same time, given that Quebec is ready, we need to be allowed to do as we see fit. All the Conservatives have to do is mind their own business. When they form government 10 years from now, they will say no. As for us, we will be free.
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