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Joël Lightbound

Member of Parliament
Liberal

Louis-Hébert
Quebec
Voting Attendance: 67%
Expenses Last Quarter: $113,755.58

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Context: House Hansard - 281 - Feb/13/24

Mr. Joël Lightbound (Louis-Hébert, Lib.)

Feb/13/24 10:04:37 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-62

Mr. Speaker, I apologize to the parliamentary secretary. He is used to this, but I think he can make room for others. I fully agree with my colleague on many things. We need more mental health resources and more access to care. There are several socio-economic factors that can exacerbate mental illness. As far as today's bill is concerned, I would like us to look at things from another angle. Let us look at the genesis of what brought us to include mental illness as grounds to request medical assistance in dying. It came from a Senate amendment that, in my opinion, should not have been accepted by the government. I do not want to make any assumptions, but we are hearing rumours that senators might try to block what could be the will of the House to delay this for three years, as Bill C‑62 seeks to do. What is my colleague's opinion about the role the Senate should play with respect to the House, whose members are duly elected to make decisions?

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Context: House Hansard - 281 - Feb/13/24

Mr. Joël Lightbound (Louis-Hébert, Lib.)

Feb/13/24 7:21:25 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-211

Madam Speaker, the member is a colleague I have always enjoyed working with. I remember one of the very first files I was asked to work on as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health back in 2017 was his private member's bill, Bill C-211, on post-traumatic stress disorder, so I know it means a great deal to him, and I appreciate his speech. I voted with our colleague from the other side to completely abandon the idea of opening MAID to people solely affected by mental illness. I have been convinced, through the discussions I have had with psychiatrists from across the country, that we are not ready nor is it desirable to go down that path for various reasons. One of them is that it is hard to say for certain that a mental illness is irremediable, but another aspect that moved me is that, if someone were to have access to that, theoretically, we would need to exhaust all possible treatment options. As we know, in this country, treatment options are sometimes, depending on the regions, hard to access, so I would like to have his comments on that.

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Context: House Hansard - 122 - Nov/1/22

Mr. Joël Lightbound (Louis-Hébert, Lib.)

Nov/1/22 4:30:35 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, if we could rise above partisanship with regard to the motion before us, my colleague from Mégantic—L'Érable would not be surprised to learn that I believe that, when it comes to public health measures, the onus is on the government imposing them. It is up to the government to justify whether those measures were effective from a epidemiological and public health perspective. Can my colleague admit that the ArriveCAN app did have its benefits in terms of public health and the fight against COVID-19? I heard in the debate that we are the only G20 country that had this type of app. I did not verify that myself, but can the member acknowledge that there might have been some benefits to the ArriveCAN app?

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