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APPENDIX A: LIST OF WITNESSES

Organizations and Individuals

Date

Meeting

Department of Justice

Jeanette Ettel, Senior Counsel
Human Rights Law Section

2016/01/18

2

Joanne Klineberg, Senior Counsel
Criminal Law Policy Section

 

 

Barreau du Québec

Jean-Pierre Ménard, Lawyer

2016/01/25

3

Marc Sauvé, Director
Research and Legislation Services

 

 

Department of Health

Sharon Harper, Manager
Chronic and Continuing Care Division

 

 

Abby Hoffman, Assistant Deputy Minister
Strategic Policy

 

 

As an individual

Peter Hogg, Scholar in Residence
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

 

 

External Panel on Options for a Legislative Response to Carter v. Canada

Stephen Mihorean, Executive Director
Secretariat

2016/01/26

5

Benoît Pelletier, Member
External Panel

 

 

Provincial-Territorial Expert Advisory Group on Physician-Assisted Dying

Jennifer Gibson, Co-Chair

 

 

Maureen Taylor, Co-Chair

 

 

Canadian Medical Association

Dr. Jeff Blackmer, Vice-President
Medical Professionalism

2016/01/27

6

Dr. Cindy Forbes, President

 

 

Canadian Nurses Association

Josette Roussel, Senior Nurse Advisor

 

 

Anne Sutherland Boal, Chief Executive Officer

 

 

Canadian Pharmacists Association

Carlo Berardi, Chair

 

 

Phil Emberley, Director
Professional Affairs

 

 

Canadian Psychiatric Association

Dr. K. Sonu Gaind, President

 

 

Katie Hardy, Director
Professional and Member Affairs

 

 

Canadian Society of Palliative Care Physicians

Dr. Monica Branigan

 

 

Council of Canadians with Disabilities

Dean Richert, Co-Chair
Ending of Life Ethics Committee

2016/01/28

7

Rhonda Wiebe, Co-Chair
Ending of Life Ethics Committee

 

 

Dying With Dignity Canada

Linda Jarrett, Member
Disability Advisory Council

 

 

As individuals

David Baker, Lawyer
Bakerlaw

 

 

Jocelyn Downie, Professor
Faculties of Law and Medicine, Dalhousie University

 

 

Hon. Steven Fletcher

 

 

Trudo Lemmens, Professor
Faculty of Law & Dalla Lana School of Public Health,
University of Toronto

 

 

Alzheimer Society of Canada

Debbie Benczkowski, Chief Operating Officer

2016/02/01

8

Mimi Lowi-Young, Chief Executive Officer

 

 

British Columbia Civil Liberties Association

Grace Pastine, Litigation Director

 

 

Josh Paterson, Executive Director

 

 

College of Family Physicians of Canada

Dr. Francine Lemire, Executive Director and
Chief Executive Officer

 

 

Dying With Dignity Canada

Shanaaz Gokool, Chief Operating Officer and
National Campaigns Director

 

 

Wanda Morris, Chief Executive Officer

 

 

Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms

Jay Cameron, Barrister and Solicitor

 

 

Canadian Cancer Society

Kelly Masotti, Assistant Director
Public Issues

2016/02/01

9

Gabriel Miller, Director
Public Issues

 

 

As an individual

Carrie Bourassa, Professor
Indigenous Health Studies, First Nations University of Canada

 

 

Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association

Sharon Baxter, Executive Director

2016/02/02

10

College of Physicians and Surgeons of Nova Scotia

Dr. Douglas Grant, Registrar and Chief Executive Officer

 

 

Marjorie Hickey, Legal Counsel

 

 

Criminal Lawyers' Association

Leo Russomanno, Member and Criminal Defence Counsel

 

 

Dying With Dignity Canada

Dr. Derryck Smith, Chair of Physicians Advisory Council

 

 

Indigenous Physicians Association of Canada

Dr. Alika Lafontaine, President

 

 

As an individual

Carolyn Ells, Associate Professor, Medicine
Biomedical Ethics Unit, McGill University

 

 

Canadian Council of Imams

Imam Sikander Hashmi, Spokesperson

2016/02/03

11

Canadian Paediatric Society

Dr. Dawn Davies, Chair
Bioethics Committee

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

Coalition for HealthCARE and Conscience

Cardinal Thomas Collins, Archbishop
Archdiocese of Toronto

 

 

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

 

 

Alliance of People with Disabilities Who Are Supportive of Legal Assisted Dying Society

Margaret Birrell, President

2016/02/04

12

Angus M. Gunn, Counsel

 

 

Canadian Association for Community Living

Michael Bach, Executive Vice-President

 

 

DisAbled Women's Network of Canada

Carmela Hutchison, President

 

 

Society of Rural Physicians of Canada

Dr. John Soles, President

 

 

The Canadian Medical Protective Association

Dr. Hartley Stern, Executive Director  and Chief Executive Officer

 

 

As individuals

Gerald Chipeur, Lawyer

 

 

Margaret Somerville, Professor
McGill University