QUESTION PERIOD — Ministry of Health
Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying
February 9, 2022
During the last Parliament, your government asked us to amend the medical assistance in dying legislation. The legislation, as passed, required the establishment of a special joint committee of senators and members of Parliament to report on the first few years of medical assistance in dying and to study the possibility of advance directives.
Why didn’t the government reconvene this special committee after the election?
I believe I already answered that question earlier, but I can sum up my response again.
First, the commitment was made, and that was the right thing to do.
Second, we are working together with the provinces and territories to do this in the most appropriate way possible.
Third, I don’t set the parliamentary agenda. Parliamentarians do. However, my responsibility is to ensure that all of this is done efficiently and quickly, and I will be there to do that.
