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Assisted dying : Quebec allows advance directives, defying federal ban

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DYER, Owen

Quebec will allow people with incurable diseases or in the early stages of dementia to make advance directives specifying conditions under which they could receive medical assistance in dying without giving further consent. Such directives will be accepted from 30 October, although medical staff providing assistance in such cases would technically be guilty of homicide under Canadian federal criminal law. Quebec, Canada’s second most populous province, updated its law in June 2023 to permit such directives,1 and asked the federal government in Ottawa to amend federal law accordingly. But the federal government declined to do so, arguing that national law could not be changed when other provinces were not ready.

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