Since the Canadian Supreme Court overturned the protections in law that prohibited both assisted suicide and euthanasia in February 2015, Canada has been in free fall. Quebec went on to create its own permissive regime, which was suspended and then re-instated by the courts. No consensus has risen yet on the form of national legislation to give voice to the will of the courts, and stakeholders both pro and con are engaging in a tug-of-war between protecting vulnerable people on the one hand, and…
