This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Quebec Justice Minister Sonia LeBel. LeBel and Health Minister Danielle McCann told a news conference they have not decided whether the contested section of the Quebec law will be redrafted, adding that the government will separately study broadening access to the procedure.
Baudouin ruled invalid the Criminal Code requirement that a natural death be “reasonably foreseeable” before someone can be eligible for assisted death as well as the provincial requirement that people “be at the end of life.”Justice Minister Sonia LeBel and Health Minister Danielle McCann told a news conference today they have not decided whether the contested section of the Quebec law will be redrafted, adding that the government will separately study broadening access to the procedure.
Baudouin suspended the application of the judgment for six months to give federal and provincial legislators a chance to modify the laws, granting an exemption to Gladu and Truchon to seek medical aid in dying during this period if they satisfy other legal conditions.