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Minutes of Proceedings

Special Joint Committee on Physician-Assisted Dying (PDAM)

42nd Parliament, 1st Session

Meeting No. 11

Wednesday, February 3, 2016, 5:00 p.m. to 7:37 p.m.

Room C-110, 1 Wellington Street

Televised

Presiding

Hon. Kelvin Kenneth Ogilvie, Co-Chair

Robert Oliphant, Co-Chair (Liberal)

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Members of the Committee present representing the Senate The Honourable Senators

• Hon. James S. Cowan

• Hon. Serge Joyal

• Hon. Nancy Ruth

• Hon. Kelvin Kenneth Ogilvie

• Hon. Judith G. Seidman

Members of the Committee present representing the House of Commons

Liberal

Conservative

NDP

Other Senators present

• Hon. Norman E. Doyle

• Hon. Tobias C. Enverga Jr.

• Hon. Betty E. Unger

Other Members of the House of Commons present

• Mike Bossio (Liberal)

• Sean Casey (Liberal)

• Garnett Genuis (Conservative)

• Rachael Harder (Conservative)

• Kamal Khera (Liberal)

In attendance

House of Commons

• Andrea McCaffrey, Procedural Clerk

Library of Parliament

• Julia Nicol, Analyst

• Marlisa Tiedemann, Analyst

Physician-Assisted Dying

Witnesses

Coalition for HealthCARE and Conscience

• Cardinal Thomas Collins, Archbishop, Archdiocese of Toronto

• Laurence Worthen, Executive Director, Christian Medical and Dental Society of Canada

Canadian Unitarian Council

• Vyda Ng, Executive Director

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

• Dr. Tarek Rajji, Chief, Geriatric Psychiatry

• Kristin Taylor, Vice-President, Legal Services

Canadian Paediatric Society

• Dr. Dawn Davies, Chair, Bioethics Committee

• Mary J Shariff, Associate Professor of Law and Associate Dean Academic, University of Manitoba

Canadian Council of Imams

• Imam Sikander Hashmi, Spokesperson

Pursuant to the Order of Reference of Friday, December 11, 2015, the Committee resumed its study of physician-assisted dying.

Vyda Ng, by videoconference from Toronto, Ontario, Cardinal Thomas Collins and Laurence Worthen made statements and answered questions.

At 6:00 p.m., the sitting was suspended.

At 6:07 p.m., the sitting resumed.

Dr. Tarek Rajji, by videoconference from Toronto, Ontario, Dr. Dawn Davies and Mary J Shariff, by videoconference from Edmonton, Alberta and Imam Sikander Hashmi made statements and, with Kristin Taylor, by videoconference from Toronto, Ontario, answered questions.

At 7:37 p.m., the Committee adjourned to the call of the Chair.

Cynara Corbin,

Shaila Anwar

Clerks of the Committee