Courts have been writing Canada’s assisted-dying law from the start. The Supreme Court struck down the old prohibition in Carter in 2015, overturning its own ruling on the matter decades beforehand, and Parliament answered the next year with Bill C-14, a deliberately limited regime that offered MAID only to those whose natural death was already reasonably foreseeable. That limit lasted three years. In 2019, a single judge of the Quebec Superior Court undid it in Truchon, and Ottawa, rather than appeal, rewrote the law as Bill C-7 and opened the far broader Track 2, which permits assisted suicide for those who may be suffering, but are non-terminal. The lesson each time was simple: to move the legislative line, go to court.
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