Feds halt plan to expand MAID to mental illness
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Feds halt plan to expand MAID to mental illness

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 7, 202656 min
  • Politics
  • About Canada

The federal government is suspending its plan to expand medical assistance in dying to people with mental illness. Two members of the Special Joint Committee on MAID weigh in on this deeply divisive issue. Plus, former Parti Québécois leader Jean-François Lisée joins Power & Politics to discuss the party's election success and how it will approach its relationship with the federal government.

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