Disability Rights Groups Challenge Canada's Assisted Dying Law

Coalition argues Track 2 of the MAID law leads to premature deaths and targets vulnerable populations.

A coalition of disability rights groups is launching a Charter challenge against Track 2 of Canada's medical assistance in dying (MAID) law.
Track 2 allows patients whose natural deaths are not reasonably foreseeable but who suffer intolerably to apply for assisted death.
The coalition claims that Track 2 has led to premature deaths among people with disabilities.
Inclusion Canada, part of the coalition, highlights that social deprivation, poverty, and lack of support are driving disabled individuals to seek assisted death.
The group argues that medically assisted death should be limited to those whose natural death is reasonably foreseeable.