Quebec legislated for euthanasia months before the Supreme Court-mandated federal legislation came into being. After just two years, comparisons are being made with the Belgian experience.
You'll often have seen our colleagues speaking on TV during high profile legislative battles, but here are a few of our many more low key media contributions from Autumn 2017
Should 'an individual's right to avoid that final human tribulation... be given priority in law over the inherent risk involved in state-sanctioned euthanasia to the lives of our most vulnerable citizens'?
'As someone who has seen the ugliness of a slow demise, I reject the notion that dignity can be measured by the level of pain or the speed in which the individual dies'
