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Minutes of Proceedings

Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying (AMAD)

44th Parliament, 1st Session

Meeting 19

Friday, October 7, 2022, 8:45 a.m. to 10:48 a.m.

Room 225-A, West Block

Presiding

Hon. Marc Garneau, Joint Chair (Liberal)

Hon. Yonah Martin, Joint Chair

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Members of the Committee present representing the Senate

• Hon. Pierre J. Dalphond

• Hon. Stanley Paul Kutcher

• Hon. Yonah Martin

• Hon. Marie-Françoise Mégie

Members of the Committee present representing the House of Commons

Liberal

Conservative

Bloc Québécois

Luc Thériault

NDP

Alistair MacGregor

Acting Members from the House of Commons present

• Élisabeth Brière for James Maloney (Liberal)

In attendance

Library of Parliament

• Dana Phillips, Analyst

• Marlisa Tiedemann, Analyst

Statutory Review of the Provisions of the Criminal Code Relating to Medical Assistance in Dying and their Application

Witnesses

As an individual

• Geneviève Dechêne, Family Doctor

• James Downar, Professor and Head, Division of Palliative Care, University of Ottawa

• José Pereira, Professor and Director, Division of Palliative Care, Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University

Collège des médecins du Québec

• Louis Roy, Physician

TheraPsil

• Spencer Hawkswell, President and Chief Executive Officer

The Ottawa Hospital

• Mike Kekewich, Director, Champlain Regional MAID Network, Champlain Centre for Health Care Ethics

Pursuant to the orders of reference from the House of Commons on Wednesday, March 30, 2022 and from the Senate on Thursday, March 31, 2022, and subsection 5(1) of An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying), the committee resumed the statutory review of the Act.

Geneviève Dechêne, Spencer Hawkswell and James Downar made statements and answered questions.

At 9:40 a.m., the sitting was suspended.

At 9:46 a.m., the sitting resumed.

José Pereira, Louis Roy and Mike Kekewich made statements and answered questions.

At 10:48 a.m., the committee adjourned to the call of the Chair.

Wassim Bouanani,

Andrea Mugny

Joint clerks of the committee