A Canadian think tank is calling on Justice Minister David Lametti to explain comments he made last month about medical assistance in dying, or MAiD, being a “more humane way” to die than self-administered suicide.
Lametti made the comments on Nov. 18 while speaking on the Toronto Star podcast “It’s Political,” during which he also defended the federal government’s planned expansion in March 2023 of MAiD eligibility to include patients whose only medical condition is mental illness.
