Senators to Debate amid Deadlock on Assisted Dying Bill Amendment

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senators to debate amid deadlock on assisted dying bill amendmentThe Parliament is anticipated to have encountered a deadlock as Senators prepare to debate on Friday whether or not to concede to elected officials on amendments to medically assisted dying legislation. Earlier on Wednesday, the Senate voted 64-12 to significantly amend Bill C-14 and send it to the House of Commons. But the next day, MPs voted 190-108 to return it back again after accepting only a few of the amendments but rejecting the most significant one.

The amendment suggested by Sen. Serge Joyal aimed to replace the bill’s eligibility requirements with wording from the Supreme Court’s Carter decision. The amendment seeks to remove requirement for people to be terminally ill and their death to be “reasonably foreseeable” before physicians can help them die. In his remarks on Thursday, Joyal stressed that he stands by his amendment and challenged other Senators to consider this in “solemn conscience.” He said stressed that “it’s a vote on discriminating, it’s not a vote on regulating.”

Moreover leader of the Senate Liberals, Sen. Jim Cowan, also mentioned categorically that “if they’ve stripped out the main amendment that the Senate made then I won’t vote for the bill,” adding that “my position would be that we should stick to our guns.” Whereas on the other hand, Don Plett seemed a little more considerate and commented that “I cannot in all good conscience just simply vote down a bill that is better than nothing at all.”

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