{"id":328803,"date":"2025-04-01T17:37:43","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T22:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=328803"},"modified":"2025-04-01T13:56:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T18:56:19","slug":"un-committee-disabilities-blasts-ableist-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/un-committee-disabilities-blasts-ableist-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Committee on Disabilities blasts ‘ableist assumptions’ behind Canada’s assisted suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Committee released its Concluding Observations on Canada\u2019s Disability Rights Record report<\/a> on March 21, signaling its concern about a change to the nation’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) law. It specifically took issue with 2021 amendments that expanded the criteria for obtaining MAiD.<\/p>\n

The report states, “The Committee is extremely concerned about the 2021 amendments to the State Party’s Criminal code through Bill C-7 that expanded the eligibility criteria for obtaining Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), known as ‘Track 2’ MAiD by removing the ‘foreseeable death’ criteria.”<\/p>\n

It noted that similar concerns had already been expressed to the State Party by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and during the Universal Periodic Review. In addition, the Committee said that the Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, and the Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons have said that disability is not a reason to promote assisted death<\/em>.<\/p>\n