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By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director - Euthanasia Prevention Coalition In his decision on December 1, Justice Michel Pinsonnault of the Québec Superior Court stopped the Québec euthanasia law from coming into effect on December 10. The case was launched by the...
By Amy Hasbrouck: When Québec passed its euthanasia law in 2014, we pointed out many problems, hoping that these would be remedied before the law came into effect. Eighteen months later we are on the verge of entering the euthanasia era in Québec, with many issues...
Editor’s note. The following was distributed by the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. The Québec Superior Court made the right decision today when it issued a temporary injunction preventing the Québec euthanasia law from going into effect on December 10. The...
By Wesley J. Smith When a palliative care center in Quebec announced it would not offer euthanasia, the Minister of Health ominously told it, “Yes you will!” And so it has come to pass. The Center will now be one of the first to kill patients under Quebec’s euthanasia...
By Hugh Scher, Legal Counsel. Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Québec’s landmark law allowing euthanasia contravenes Canadian criminal homicide laws and represents a dangerous step towards a patchwork quilt of provincial regulation of serious criminal conduct,...
By Margaret Somerville Why, after millenniums of prohibiting the intentional killing of another human being, in particular by physicians, did Quebec politicians think euthanasia is a “progressive” idea that must be implemented without delay? Bill 52, originally...
Living with Dignity denounces the adoption of Bill 52 on “end-of-life care” Montreal-- Dramatic day for Quebec Thursday: by a vote of 94 to 22, the Members of the National Assembly have adopted Bill 52, "An Act respecting end-of-life care." The citizen network...
By Michael Cook Quebec has become the first Canadian province to legalise euthanasia. Bill 52 easily passed in the National Assembly yesterday by a vote of 94 to 22. “I want to congratulate ourselves as parliamentarians,” said Carole Poirier, of the Parti...
By Michael Cook Quebec is on the verge of legalising euthanasia. Despite the crushing defeat of the Parti Quebecois in the recent election, the governing Liberal Party and the other three major parties have taken the unusual step of backing a quick vote on the...
By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director - Euthanasia Prevention Coalition A spokesperson for Justice Minister Peter MacKay responded on May 23 to the re-introduction of the Québec euthanasia Bill 52 by stating: "The issue of assisted suicide creates great...