Skip to main content
;

PDAM Committee Meeting

Notices of Meeting include information about the subject matter to be examined by the committee and date, time and place of the meeting, as well as a list of any witnesses scheduled to appear. The Evidence is the edited and revised transcript of what is said before a committee. The Minutes of Proceedings are the official record of the business conducted by the committee at a sitting.

For an advanced search, use Publication Search tool.

If you have any questions or comments regarding the accessibility of this publication, please contact us at accessible@parl.gc.ca.

Previous day publication Next day publication

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.
Televised
Presiding
Robert Oliphant, Co-Chair (Liberal)

Expand AllCollapse All
• Mike Bossio (Liberal)
• Sean Casey (Liberal)
• Garnett Genuis (Conservative)
• Rachael Harder (Conservative)
• Kamal Khera (Liberal)
House of Commons
• Andrea McCaffrey, Procedural Clerk
 
Library of Parliament
• Julia Nicol, Analyst
• Marlisa Tiedemann, Analyst
Physician-Assisted Dying
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