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Parliament should hit brakes on quick passage of new assisted-dying law

The bill expresses an ableist presumption that lives with disability or chronic illness are intolerable or less worthy. It also ignores the context in which people with disabilities have to make health care decisions. 

Justice Minister David Lametti petitioned the court twice to extend the deadline for amending the government's assisted dying law. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
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