Rose Carter and Brandyn Rodgerson write in Alberta Law Review on the impact of the Supreme Court of Canada striking down the laws criminalizing medical assistance in dying (MAID) in Carter v. Canada (Attorney General) in 2016.
Rose and Brandyn explain the new MAID regime created by Bill C-14 and discuss the various issues raised by the new legislation, including the possibly unconstitutional exclusion of patients not suffering from terminal conditions, problems of certainty in determining when death is “reasonably foreseeable,” problems related to patients’ mental capacity, and the need for effective data collection.
