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Francis Scarpaleggia

  • Member of Parliament
  • Liberal
  • Lac-Saint-Louis
  • Quebec
  • Voting Attendance: 67%
  • Expenses Last Quarter: $123,581.21

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Context: House Hansard - 283 - Feb/15/24
Mr. Francis Scarpaleggia
  • Feb/15/24 1:57:41 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I am concerned about it. I do not know what it means and there is much disagreement as to what it means. I would ask a question of the member, which I know he will not have to answer under the rules. Is he okay with track one MAID? A lot of the psychiatrists who went before the committee who were not in favour of MAID for mental disorders were in favour of track one and track two. I would like to know if the member accepts MAID under any circumstance or not at all. It is an important ethical and moral decision, I agree, but no one in the House wants people to suffer needlessly, and I think we are all grappling with this on moral and technical grounds. It may not be possible, I cannot say, but we want to separate out suicidal ideation. We want to be able to separate out psychosocial factors as motivating factors for requesting MAID in cases of mental illness, and we are not there yet. We want to study treatment fatigue to see, if somebody says they are done and cannot take it anymore, whether we can guide them to another treatment. We have looked at treatment fatigue when it comes to HIV and type 1 diabetes patients, but we have not looked at treatment fatigue when we talk about psychiatric illnesses.
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