iPolitics By Rachel Emmanuel. Published on Feb 3, 2021 5:25pm Conservative Sen. Donald Plett scrums with reporters in Ottawa in December 2013. (Matthew Usherwood/iPolitics)
Conservative senators opposed to the government’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) legislation, Bill C-7, say they’ll wait for third reading next week to introduce amendments.
They spoke at a meeting of the Senate committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs on Wednesday. The committee’s intense three-day study of the bill ended just before the senators began clause-by-clause debate.
All clauses of the legislation passed on division, with Conservative Sens. Don Plett and Denise Batters going on the record at the beginning of the meeting to say they would vote against every clause in C-7.