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Currently, the Senate of Canada is reviewing Bill C-7 as it seeks to understand the implications of further expanding medical assistance in dying, known as MAiD.
Some of the proposed amendments contained in Bill C-7 are in reply to the 2019 decision of the Quebec Superior Court in
Truchon v. Procureur général du Canada. As a Canadian physician and anesthesiologist working in the United States, this debate is of interest to me. I was a witness in these Senate hearings because I am an expert in the opposition to lethal injection, the most common form of execution in the U.S. To be clear, my expertise is relevant to MAiD not because it is considered akin to the execution of prisoners in its essence, but because the pharmaceutical and medical methods used are quite similar.