Assisted Suicide Expansion for Mentally Ill Premature

People rally against medically assisted dying legislation on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on June 1, 2016. The Canadian Press/Justin Tang

Commentary

Fix mental health care first. That’s a key takeaway from new poll results, which found that 82 percent of Canadians agree improving access to mental health care should happen before expanding “medical assistance in dying” (MAID) to those with mental illness as their sole underlying condition.