Far more than their American counterparts, members of the Canadian parliamentary rarely stray from the wishes of party leadership. David Kilgour and John Kirsner write “Representative democracy in Canada is so dominated by political parties that some experts believe the party discipline exerted on most votes in our House of Commons and provincial legislatures is the tightest in the democratic world.”
Bill C-218, if passed, would permanently ban doctors and nurse practitioners from providing medically assisted dying (MAiD) to anyone whose only medical issue is a mental illness. (The legal term is “mental disorder.”)
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