{"id":99612,"date":"2024-05-13T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T11:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/medical-aid-in-dying-and-mental-disorders-debates-delays-and-discourse-in-canadian-legislation\/"},"modified":"2024-07-30T12:33:41","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T16:33:41","slug":"medical-aid-in-dying-and-mental-disorders-debates-delays-and-discourse-in-canadian-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/medical-aid-in-dying-and-mental-disorders-debates-delays-and-discourse-in-canadian-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Aid in Dying and Mental Disorders: Debates, Delays, and Discourse in Canadian Legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The inclusion in legislation of mental illness as the only medical condition for obtaining medical aid in dying has sparked significant debate in the Canadian Parliament recently. Since the 2015 Carter v. Canada (Attorney General) decision and the subsequent passage of Bill C-14, medical aid in dying became legal on June 17, 2016. The Criminal Code now allows doctors and nurse practitioners to provide this assistance to capable and consenting adults suffering from a serious and irremediable condition leading to a foreseeable natural death. <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bill C-7, tabled in the Parliament of Canada on March 17, 2021, expanded eligibility criteria for people whose natural death is not foreseeable, under certain conditions. However, the inclusion of mental illness as the sole reason for qualification sparked fierce debate and has still not been accepted by Parliament. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Students wanted to weigh up the pros and cons of this debate and looked at the structural issues involved in caring for people suffering from mental disorders. Together with Professor Emmanuelle Bernheim, they explore the arguments for and against Parliament’s refusal to extend medical aid in dying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Professor Emmanuelle Bernheim, this debate raises systemic issues in both the medical and social spheres, including the question of barriers to accessing mental health resources. Professor Bernheim advocates public coverage of mental health services to reduce inequalities and stresses the importance of social services in improving the quality of life of people with mental disorders. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This visual advocacy video was produced by law students Amanda Buttice, Alexandra Castiel, Grace El Chami, Shaun Jamison and Kim Nguyen as part of the Visual Advocacy\/Law and Film course <\/a>offered at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, Civil Law Section. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As part of a visual pleading project, law students explore the social, legal and political concerns surrounding the inclusion in legislation of mental illness as the sole medical condition for obtaining medical aid in dying. With the help of Professor Emmanuelle Bernheim, they examine the role of access to mental health resources in Canada on this issue. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":99641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[78,137,20,135],"class_list":["post-99612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knowledge","tag-access-to-justice","tag-health-law","tag-human-rights","tag-student-project"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":27,"label":"JuriKnowledge"}],"post_tag":[{"value":78,"label":"Access to Justice"},{"value":137,"label":"Health Law"},{"value":20,"label":"Human Rights"},{"value":135,"label":"Student Projects"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AMM-TITLE-EN-1024x576.png",1024,576,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Amanda Buttice","author_link":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/author\/amanda\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":27,"name":"JuriKnowledge","slug":"knowledge","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":27,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Video publications about legal issues, highlighting the work of legal scholars or the activities of legal practitioners.","parent":0,"count":80,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":27,"category_count":80,"category_description":"Video publications about legal issues, highlighting the work of legal scholars or the activities of legal practitioners.","cat_name":"JuriKnowledge","category_nicename":"knowledge","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":78,"name":"Access to Justice","slug":"access-to-justice","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":78,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":26,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0"},{"term_id":137,"name":"Health Law","slug":"health-law","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":137,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":5,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0"},{"term_id":20,"name":"Human Rights","slug":"human-rights","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":20,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":15,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0"},{"term_id":135,"name":"Student Projects","slug":"student-project","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":135,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":23,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}