Last week, Bill C-218, a bill that would have excluded mental illness as a sole medical condition from MAID eligibility, was defeated in Parliament. According to a caucus briefing note, the government argued that the bill’s term, “mental disorder,” is too broad. This, despite the fact that the government’s own expert panel chose “mental disorder” because it is the term used in psychiatric diagnosis. It is also the term used by the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying in the title of its June report. Some supporters of the bill, who want mental illness removed from MAID eligibility, even offered to change it to “mental illness.”
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