Monday 22 February 2016

Assisted Suicide Law v3

Before June 6th, 2016, what will happen with regards to Canada's assisted suicide law?
A new law will be passed regulating assisted suicide: 65%
The current law will be extended by the Supreme Court: 10%
The current law will expire: 25%

Since my previous post on this topic, the Supreme Court has extended the old law prohibiting assisted suicide by four months (the government wanted six months - see article here).  A further extension seems unlikely to be granted, given the circumstances.  It seems more likely that the current law will expire without a new law coming into force (if only for a short period of time).  However, since that would reflect badly on the government, the most likely outcome is for a new law to be passed.

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