I need to clarify a point.

I presume that Canada has, as it has a parliamentary system like Westminster, a provision in its constitution that means that no Parliament may bind a future Parliament - meaning that laws can always be amended or repealed. I think that this is an absolutely necessary provision, the consequences of allowing a Parliament to pass a law that could not be amended or repealed by a future Parliament don’t bear thinking about.

However, the consequence of this safety measure is that a reasonable law, like allowing terminal cancer patients in intractable pain to control the manner and time of their death can morph into a law where someone with depression can suicide with state assistance and THAT is outrageous.

This hasn’t only happened in Canada, it’s been a problem with the euthanasia law in Belgium too, it seems that the pro-euthanasia side cannot help themselves and seem set on widening the qualifications for assisted suicide until they’re installing suicide booths on street corners.