UPDATE: Still not good enough for the Canada Civil Liberties Union - The euthanasia lobby is wanting to extend euthanasia to “mature” minors, to people with dementia (through advanced directives), and to people with psychiatric conditions alone.
No doubt, when you read the Bill -
The controversial issue was the requirement that a medical or nurse practitioner could approve a lethal injection if the person’s “natural death is reasonably foreseeable.” Parliament insisted that this requirement remain in the bill while the Senate argued that the Supreme Court did not state that a person must be “terminally ill.”
The final bill maintains that “natural death must be reasonably foreseeable.”
Isn't everyone' s "natural death ... reasonably foreseeable"?
And it gets worse -
Yesterday, the House of Commons removed a controversial amendment and a protective amendment in the Senate version of the bill and then sent it back to the Senate for approval.
This morning the Senate considered an amendment that would have referred the terminal illness provision in the bill (natural death is reasonably foreseeable) to the Supreme Court of Canada, but that amendment was defeated.
The controversial issue was the requirement that a medical or nurse practitioner could approve a lethal injection if the person’s “natural death is reasonably foreseeable.” Parliament insisted that this requirement remain in the bill while the Senate argued that the Supreme Court did not state that a person must be “terminally ill.”
The final bill maintains that “natural death must be reasonably foreseeable.”
I was disappointed that House of Commons withdrew the amendment that prohibited a beneficiary from participating in a persons assisted death or signing the person’s request for assisted death. This was an amendment that protected people from a greedy beneficiary or an unscrupulous family member.
The final bill allows a beneficiary to participate in the act, even to lethally inject.
The Senate then passed Bill C-14 by a vote of 44 to 28. The response from parliament was to declare a summer recess.
The bill that determines how Canadians will kill Canadians was passed on the last day of the parliamentary schedule in time for the summer recess.
Bill C-14 now goes to the Governor General to be signed.
No attempts were made to amend the most grievous parts of Bill C-14.
It's very sad. All I can say is that folk should be more careful about whom they vote into power...
Let's all pray more
Posted by: [email protected] | June 28, 2016 at 01:55 PM
Our Canadian brothers and sisters are in grave danger and need our prayers to turn their country to one of respect for all human LIFE!
Posted by: Eileen Peterson | June 29, 2016 at 07:02 PM
When the surroundings are the darkest, the light can be most brilliant. May God send His great Light upon the people of Canada. This dreadful Law cannot stand the test of time!
Posted by: Eileen Peterson | July 05, 2016 at 08:31 PM