Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2016-05-02 17:25:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Hon. Erin O'Toole (Durham, CPC)",
        "fr": "L\u2019hon. Erin O'Toole (Durham, PCC)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4317362\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I would like to start by thanking my colleague, the member of Parliament for <a data-HoCid=\"214192\" href=\"/politicians/peter-kent/\" title=\"Peter Kent\">Thornhill</a>, for a very thoughtful presentation in this House.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4317363\" data-originallang=\"en\">A debate on Bill <a data-HoCid=\"8177165\" href=\"/bills/42-1/C-14/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Criminal Code and to make related amendments to other Acts (medical assistance in dying)\">C-14</a> is an example of this House of Commons at its best. Canadians do not send us here to have unanimous agreement on issues of the day. We are here to represent our ridings, the constituents who have sent us to Ottawa. We belong to political parties. We have different leaders' roles. However, we are Canadians who bring an experience and a point of view to this chamber. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4317364\" data-originallang=\"en\">Infrequently, we share that view in the personal stories that people bring to the House of Commons. Today, on the difficult subject of Bill C-14, I learned of my colleague's perspective and personal experience with a member of his family, his personal experience covering the Rodriguez case in the 1990s as a journalist, and how that has combined to formulate his position on assisted dying or euthanasia. Members should welcome that. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4317365\" data-originallang=\"en\">It is unfortunate that we do not have a full House for important debates like this. We get so busy, but it is important for us to learn the perspective that each of us brings as a member of this chamber. We are not sent here to be surrogates for other interests or to run polls. We are sent with the judgment to try to look at legislation from the lens of our own experience, education, and background. Many members have brought that to this floor today, and I applaud them for it.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4317366\" data-originallang=\"en\">I have looked at Bill <a data-HoCid=\"8177165\" href=\"/bills/42-1/C-14/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Criminal Code and to make related amendments to other Acts (medical assistance in dying)\">C-14</a>, and I have struggled with it. Certainly this is a place where there are two sides on this issue, maybe broken down even more than that. However, there is compassion at the heart of both sides, and that is what is often forgotten in this debate. Why I say this should be the House of Commons at its best is that the Supreme Court of Canada recognized the role of Parliament to clarify the law with respect to euthanasia in a way that is thoughtful and complies with its direction in Carter. This is indeed one of the important debates that we should not fear in our House of Commons. We should ensure that we take part vigorously and share perspectives, as my friend from <a data-HoCid=\"214192\" href=\"/politicians/peter-kent/\" title=\"Peter Kent\">Thornhill</a> has.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4317367\" data-originallang=\"en\">I have looked at Bill <a data-HoCid=\"8177165\" href=\"/bills/42-1/C-14/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Criminal Code and to make related amendments to other Acts (medical assistance in dying)\">C-14</a>, not just as a member of this chamber but also as a lawyer. I have reviewed the case law going back on this some 20 years. I have also reviewed it as a father of two children, a husband\u2014I know my wife is watching today\u2014and the son of a strong woman who died from cancer when I was nine. My most formative memories of my mother Mollie are in her palliative stage of that disease. Of course, all of these things combine to formulate my position on Bill C-14 and what I feel is the government's position with respect to Carter.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4317368\" data-originallang=\"en\"> However, I am using my speech today to talk about some of the concerns I have with the bill. I will start with a Supreme Court of Canada quote from Justice Sopinka: </p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"4317369\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Regardless of one's personal views as to whether the distinctions drawn between withdrawal of treatment and palliative care, on the one hand, and assisted suicide on the other are practically compelling, the fact remains that these distinctions are maintained and can be persuasively defended. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"4317370\" data-originallang=\"en\">Within the Rodriguez decision in 1993, the Supreme Court struggled with the role of the state at end of life in euthanasia or assisted dying. It struggled with whether that role should be passive with respect to palliative care, treating and helping and comforting and limiting pain at end of life, or whether the role of the state should be an active role at end of life. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4317371\" data-originallang=\"en\">Justice Sopinka, in the majority court in 1993, said that the bright line of the active versus passive could be persuasively defended. That was the language of the court. Canadians remember, as my friend from <a data-HoCid=\"214192\" href=\"/politicians/peter-kent/\" title=\"Peter Kent\">Thornhill</a> did, the tragic circumstance of Ms. Rodriguez and her compassionate arguments with respect to that. Bill <a data-HoCid=\"8177165\" href=\"/bills/42-1/C-14/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Criminal Code and to make related amendments to other Acts (medical assistance in dying)\">C-14</a> is about the role of the state. It is not suicide alone, and that is why we have to have legislation that both accepts the Carter decision but brings us to a position that Canadians can be comfortable with, that persuasively defends it.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4317372\" data-originallang=\"en\">The second quote I will use is from Carter, paragraph 117, as to why the court found the position of the trial judge to be compelling. It states:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"4317373\" data-originallang=\"en\"> We agree with the trial judge that the risks associated with physician-assisted death can be limited through a carefully designed and monitored system of safeguards. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"4317374\" data-originallang=\"en\">At paragraph 120, it went on to state:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"4317375\" data-originallang=\"en\"> We should not lightly assume that the regulatory regime will function defectively.... </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"4317376\" data-originallang=\"en\">What the Supreme Court did was to allow this Parliament to come up with a regulatory regime to function effectively. The importance of that function is to ensure that what both courts said, the court of the Sopinka decision and the unanimous court of today in Carter, is that the decisionally vulnerable should be safeguarded. That was clearly part of the direction of both courts. This key element, and the aspect of what I consider to be the challenge for an ironclad regulatory regime, the slippery slope argument, is where I find Bill <a data-HoCid=\"8177165\" href=\"/bills/42-1/C-14/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Criminal Code and to make related amendments to other Acts (medical assistance in dying)\">C-14</a> to be failing. That is why I am not supportive of it.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4317377\" data-originallang=\"en\">In the Carter decision, the court said that it was not in a straitjacket because it rejected euthanasia in the Rodriguez decision, and it looked at it in light of recent charter decisions. However, it is looking to Parliament for a system that does not allow the decisionally vulnerable, those impacted by a terrible diagnosis, under the strain and stress of an illness, to at a moment want to take their life and have the state play a role in that. Both courts recognized that these are vulnerable Canadians who need to be safeguarded. My concern is that this would not take place within this legislation before this chamber.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4317378\" data-originallang=\"en\"> If we look at the great work that members of the all-party committee did, from the aspects of the all-party committee recommendations to what is before us in Bill <a data-HoCid=\"8177165\" href=\"/bills/42-1/C-14/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Criminal Code and to make related amendments to other Acts (medical assistance in dying)\">C-14</a>, the bill actually reflects more of the work done by the Conservative opposition on that committee. However, it certainly shows an indication of where the regulatory regime regarding assisted death would go. At some point in the future, it will likely include mature minors, and it will likely include people afflicted with mental illness, because that was the recommendation of the all-party committee. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4317379\" data-originallang=\"en\">As a veterans advocate for years before I joined Parliament, and having the privilege of being the veterans minister, I have met dozens of veterans who would have been decisionally vulnerable when they were suffering from depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, or another operational stress injury, but who are now leading productive lives as mothers and fathers. Some have returned to their role in the military. Many are actually advocating and helping other veterans. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4317380\" data-originallang=\"en\">Therefore, I am concerned with a regime that indicates that is where it will go. I know that Bill <a data-HoCid=\"8177165\" href=\"/bills/42-1/C-14/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Criminal Code and to make related amendments to other Acts (medical assistance in dying)\">C-14</a> does not contain those provisions. However, the slippery slope element, which both the Sopinka courts and the McLachlin courts considered, show that is what we should anticipate in a few years. Although this House of Commons is well-intentioned, with an impossible regulatory regime, unable to look at every situation, I think the persuasively defended bright line has not been accomplished in Bill <a data-HoCid=\"8177165\" href=\"/bills/42-1/C-14/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Criminal Code and to make related amendments to other Acts (medical assistance in dying)\">C-14</a>. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4317381\" data-originallang=\"en\">Another example I will provide is that the Carter family themselves have expressed concern with Bill <a data-HoCid=\"8177165\" href=\"/bills/42-1/C-14/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Criminal Code and to make related amendments to other Acts (medical assistance in dying)\">C-14</a>. However, the <a data-HoCid=\"214321\" href=\"/politicians/jody-wilson-raybould/\" title=\"Jody Wilson-Raybould\">Minister of Justice</a>, in her thoughtful remarks in this chamber, which I appreciated, suggested that both appellants would have been provided for with respect to their assisted death under Bill <a data-HoCid=\"8177165\" href=\"/bills/42-1/C-14/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Criminal Code and to make related amendments to other Acts (medical assistance in dying)\">C-14</a>. That is not according to the family. The minister had to use language relating to a condition that can become \u201creasonably foreseeable\u201d of death. Therefore, even the distinction between the named plaintiff in this case, the position of the family and the people who advocated for them, is at odds with Bill <a data-HoCid=\"8177165\" href=\"/bills/42-1/C-14/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Criminal Code and to make related amendments to other Acts (medical assistance in dying)\">C-14</a> and the position of the justice minister. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4317382\" data-originallang=\"en\">If anything shows the fact that there is already a slippery slope and a very difficult framework to set, I am concerned that this has been rushed and it will not defend and safeguard against the decisionally vulnerable.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4317383\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Could Bill <a data-HoCid=\"8177165\" href=\"/bills/42-1/C-14/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Criminal Code and to make related amendments to other Acts (medical assistance in dying)\">C-14</a> be improved or, if Parliament could take more time, could it address this issue that confronts this place with Carter? In my weighing of all of the issues, as I said, as a parliamentarian who tries to draw upon my own experiences, as everyone does in this place, I do not think Bill C-14 can do that. I still feel that the persuasively defended bright line accomplished in the Sopinka decision has not been met by Bill C-14. In addition, many of the concerns providing the slippery slope that the Supreme Court in Carter raised have not been addressed by Bill C-14 either.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4317384\" data-originallang=\"en\">However, I have appreciated people sharing their points of view on this important issue. Parliament should not fear important debates. Members should come here in a respectful and thoughtful tone.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4317362\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, d'entr\u00e9e de jeu, je tiens \u00e0 remercier mon coll\u00e8gue le d\u00e9put\u00e9 de <a data-HoCid=\"214192\" href=\"/politicians/peter-kent/\" title=\"Peter Kent\">Thornhill</a>, qui a livr\u00e9 un discours tr\u00e8s r\u00e9fl\u00e9chi \u00e0 la Chambre.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4317363\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le d\u00e9bat sur le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"8177165\" href=\"/bills/42-1/C-14/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Criminal Code and to make related amendments to other Acts (medical assistance in dying)\">C-14</a> est un exemple des moments o\u00f9 la Chambre des communes peut donner sa pleine mesure. Les Canadiens ne nous ont pas envoy\u00e9s ici pour que nous nous entendions \u00e0 l'unanimit\u00e9 sur les enjeux de l'heure. Nous sommes ici pour repr\u00e9senter nos circonscriptions respectives et nos concitoyens qui nous ont envoy\u00e9s \u00e0 Ottawa. Nous appartenons \u00e0 des partis politiques. Les r\u00f4les varient d'un chef \u00e0 l'autre. Toutefois, en tant que Canadiens, nous mettons en commun nos exp\u00e9riences et nos points de vue \u00e0 la Chambre des communes.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4317364\" data-originallang=\"en\">\u00c0 l'occasion, des d\u00e9put\u00e9s font part de leur exp\u00e9rience personnelle \u00e0 la Chambre. Aujourd'hui, dans le cadre du d\u00e9bat sur l'enjeu difficile trait\u00e9 dans le projet de loi C-14, j'ai entendu le point de vue de mon coll\u00e8gue, qui nous a aussi parl\u00e9 de son exp\u00e9rience personnelle aupr\u00e8s d'un membre de sa famille et de ce qu'il a v\u00e9cu en tant que journaliste lors de l'affaire Rodriguez, dans les ann\u00e9es 1990. Il nous a dit que ces exp\u00e9riences l'avaient amen\u00e9 \u00e0 prendre position sur l'aide m\u00e9dicale \u00e0 mourir ou l'euthanasie. Les d\u00e9put\u00e9s devraient accueillir favorablement les interventions de ce genre.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4317365\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il est regrettable que tous les d\u00e9put\u00e9s ne soient pas pr\u00e9sents \u00e0 la Chambre \u00e0 l'occasion d'un d\u00e9bat d'une telle importance. M\u00eame si nous sommes extr\u00eamement occup\u00e9s, il demeure tr\u00e8s pertinent de conna\u00eetre le point de vue de nos coll\u00e8gues de la Chambre. Les Canadiens ne nous ont pas \u00e9lus pour repr\u00e9senter d'autres int\u00e9r\u00eats que les leurs ou pour mener des sondages. Ils nous ont charg\u00e9s d'examiner les projets de loi de fa\u00e7on judicieuse, \u00e0 la lumi\u00e8re de notre exp\u00e9rience, de notre \u00e9ducation et de nos ant\u00e9c\u00e9dents. C'est ce que de nombreux d\u00e9put\u00e9s ont fait aujourd'hui et je les en f\u00e9licite. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4317366\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'ai examin\u00e9 le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"8177165\" href=\"/bills/42-1/C-14/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Criminal Code and to make related amendments to other Acts (medical assistance in dying)\">C-14</a> et j'avoue avoir trouv\u00e9 l'exercice \u00e9prouvant. Il va sans dire que cette question suscite des pour et des contre et des positions peut-\u00eatre encore plus complexes. Quoi qu'il en soit, les partisans comme les opposants \u00e0 cette mesure font preuve d'une v\u00e9ritable compassion, ce qu'on oublie souvent dans ce d\u00e9bat. Si je dis qu'il s'agit d'un de ces moments o\u00f9 la Chambre des communes peut donner sa pleine mesure, c'est parce que la Cour supr\u00eame du Canada a reconnu qu'il incombe au Parlement de pr\u00e9ciser la loi concernant l'euthanasie, de fa\u00e7on r\u00e9fl\u00e9chie et conforme \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat Carter. Nous ne devrions pas craindre de tenir un d\u00e9bat de cette importance \u00e0 la Chambre des communes. Nous devrions y prendre part activement et exprimer notre point de vue, \u00e0 l'instar de mon coll\u00e8gue de <a data-HoCid=\"214192\" href=\"/politicians/peter-kent/\" title=\"Peter Kent\">Thornhill</a>.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4317367\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'ai examin\u00e9 le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"8177165\" href=\"/bills/42-1/C-14/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Criminal Code and to make related amendments to other Acts (medical assistance in dying)\">C-14</a>, non seulement \u00e0 titre de d\u00e9put\u00e9, mais aussi en ma qualit\u00e9 d'avocat. J'ai pass\u00e9 en revue la jurisprudence des quelque 20 derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es. Je l'ai aussi \u00e9tudi\u00e9e en tant que p\u00e8re de deux enfants, en tant qu'\u00e9poux \u2014 je sais que ma femme nous regarde aujourd'hui \u2014 et en tant que fils d'une femme forte qui est morte du cancer quand j'avais neuf ans. Les souvenirs les plus marquants que j'ai de ma m\u00e8re Mollie datent de l'\u00e9poque o\u00f9 sa maladie avait atteint la phase palliative. Bien entendu, tous ces facteurs pris ensemble expliquent mon point de vue sur le projet de loi C-14 et sur ce que j'estime \u00eatre la position du gouvernement par rapport \u00e0 l'affaire Carter.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4317368\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Toutefois, je voudrais profiter de mon intervention aujourd'hui pour exprimer certaines de mes r\u00e9serves quant au projet de loi. Je commencerai par une citation du juge Sopinka de la Cour supr\u00eame du Canada: </p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"4317369\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Ind\u00e9pendamment des opinions personnelles de chacun sur la question de savoir si les distinctions \u00e9tablies entre, d'une part, la cessation de traitement et les soins palliatifs et, d'autre part, l'aide au suicide sont en pratique convaincantes, le fait demeure qu'elles sont maintenues et peuvent \u00eatre d\u00e9fendues de fa\u00e7on persuasive. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"4317370\" data-originallang=\"en\">Dans l'arr\u00eat Rodriguez, en 1993, la Cour supr\u00eame a eu du mal \u00e0 d\u00e9finir le r\u00f4le de l'\u00c9tat en fin de vie pour ce qui est de l'euthanasie ou de l'aide m\u00e9dicale \u00e0 mourir. Le r\u00f4le de l'\u00c9tat devait-il \u00eatre passif \u2014 et se limiter ainsi aux soins palliatifs, aux mesures d'aide et de r\u00e9confort et au soulagement de la douleur \u2014, ou plut\u00f4t actif?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4317371\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le juge Sopinka, qui faisait partie des juges majoritaires en 1993, a dit que la ligne de d\u00e9marcation entre le r\u00f4le passif et le r\u00f4le actif de l'\u00c9tat pouvait \u00eatre d\u00e9fendue de fa\u00e7on persuasive. La Cour s'est exprim\u00e9e en ces termes. Les Canadiens se souviennent, tout comme l'a rappel\u00e9 le d\u00e9put\u00e9 de <a data-HoCid=\"214192\" href=\"/politicians/peter-kent/\" title=\"Peter Kent\">Thornhill</a>, des tragiques circonstances v\u00e9cues par Mme Rodriguez ainsi que de ses arguments convaincants. Le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"8177165\" href=\"/bills/42-1/C-14/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Criminal Code and to make related amendments to other Acts (medical assistance in dying)\">C-14</a> porte sur le r\u00f4le de l'\u00c9tat. Il ne s'agit pas uniquement de suicide. C'est la raison pour laquelle il faut adopter une mesure l\u00e9gislative qui soit conforme \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat Carter, mais qui ait aussi l'aval des Canadiens et qui puisse \u00eatre d\u00e9fendue de fa\u00e7on persuasive.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4317372\" data-originallang=\"en\">Ma deuxi\u00e8me citation est tir\u00e9e du paragraphe 117 de l'arr\u00eat Carter. La Cour y explique pourquoi elle trouve convaincants les arguments de la juge de premi\u00e8re instance. </p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"4317373\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Nous sommes d\u2019accord avec elle pour dire qu\u2019un syst\u00e8me de garanties soigneusement con\u00e7u et surveill\u00e9 peut limiter les risques associ\u00e9s \u00e0 l\u2019aide m\u00e9dicale \u00e0 mourir. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"4317374\" data-originallang=\"en\">Au paragraphe 120, elle dit:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"4317375\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Nous ne devons pas supposer \u00e0 la l\u00e9g\u00e8re qu\u2019un tel r\u00e9gime fonctionnera mal [...] </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"4317376\" data-originallang=\"en\">La Cour supr\u00eame a ainsi permis au Parlement d'instaurer un r\u00e9gime de r\u00e9glementation efficace. Les deux arr\u00eats, celui du juge Sopinka et l'arr\u00eat Carter rendu r\u00e9cemment \u00e0 l'unanimit\u00e9, soulignent qu'il faut absolument prot\u00e9ger les personnes vuln\u00e9rables qui ne sont pas en mesure de prendre une d\u00e9cision. Cet aspect ressort clairement des deux arr\u00eats. J'estime donc que le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"8177165\" href=\"/bills/42-1/C-14/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Criminal Code and to make related amendments to other Acts (medical assistance in dying)\">C-14</a> ne fonctionne pas \u00e0 cause de cet aspect fondamental, parce qu'il aurait fallu instaurer un r\u00e9gime r\u00e9glementaire \u00e0 toute \u00e9preuve et parce que le projet de loi risque de provoquer des d\u00e9rapages. Voil\u00e0 pourquoi je ne l'appuie pas. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4317377\" data-originallang=\"en\">Dans l'arr\u00eat Carter, la Cour a affirm\u00e9 qu'elle n'\u00e9tait pas li\u00e9e par sa d\u00e9cision de rejeter l'euthanasie dans l'arr\u00eat Rodriguez, et qu'elle a \u00e9tudi\u00e9 la question \u00e0 la lumi\u00e8re de r\u00e9centes d\u00e9cisions fond\u00e9es sur la Charte. Cependant, elle veut que le Parlement mette en place un syst\u00e8me pour prot\u00e9ger les personnes vuln\u00e9rables dans la prise de leur d\u00e9cision, c'est-\u00e0-dire les personnes frapp\u00e9es d'un terrible diagnostic et dont la maladie leur fait subir une telle pression qu'ils en viennent \u00e0 vouloir mettre fin \u00e0 leurs jours avec l'aide de l'\u00c9tat. Les deux tribunaux ont reconnu que ce sont des Canadiens vuln\u00e9rables qui doivent \u00eatre prot\u00e9g\u00e9s. Ce qui me pr\u00e9occupe, c'est que le projet de loi dont la Chambre est saisie ne permettrait pas de le faire.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4317378\" data-originallang=\"en\">Si on se penche sur l'excellent travail r\u00e9alis\u00e9 par les membres du comit\u00e9 multipartite, notamment sur ses recommandations \u00e0 l'\u00e9gard des mesures du projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"8177165\" href=\"/bills/42-1/C-14/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Criminal Code and to make related amendments to other Acts (medical assistance in dying)\">C-14</a> dont nous sommes saisis, on remarque que le projet de loi refl\u00e8te davantage le travail que l'opposition conservatrice a r\u00e9alis\u00e9 au sein de ce comit\u00e9. Cependant, il donne certainement une id\u00e9e de ce que pourrait devenir le r\u00e9gime d'aide \u00e0 mourir. Il pourrait \u00e0 l'avenir inclure les mineurs matures et les personnes atteintes d'une maladie mentale, car cela faisait partie des recommandations du comit\u00e9 multipartite.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4317379\" data-originallang=\"en\">Ayant repr\u00e9sent\u00e9 les anciens combattants pendant des ann\u00e9es avant de me joindre au Parlement, et ayant d\u00e9j\u00e0 eu le privil\u00e8ge d'occuper la fonction de ministre des Anciens Combattants, j'ai rencontr\u00e9 des dizaines d'anciens combattants qui auraient fait partie des personnes vuln\u00e9rables dans la prise de leur d\u00e9cision lorsqu'elles souffraient de d\u00e9pression, de trouble de stress post-traumatique ou d'un autre trouble li\u00e9 au stress op\u00e9rationnel, mais qui m\u00e8nent d\u00e9sormais une vie productive en tant que m\u00e8re ou p\u00e8re de famille. Certains ont repris leurs fonctions militaires. Bon nombre d'entre eux repr\u00e9sentent et soutiennent d'autres anciens combattants.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4317380\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Je suis donc pr\u00e9occup\u00e9 \u00e0 l'id\u00e9e de mettre en place un r\u00e9gime qui pourrait s'engager dans cette voie. Je sais que le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"8177165\" href=\"/bills/42-1/C-14/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Criminal Code and to make related amendments to other Acts (medical assistance in dying)\">C-14</a> ne contient pas de telles dispositions. Cependant, le risque de d\u00e9rapage soulign\u00e9 par le juge Sopinka et la juge McLachlin indique que c'est le genre de situation \u00e0 laquelle on pourrait s'attendre dans quelques ann\u00e9es. Bien que la Chambre des communes soit bien intentionn\u00e9e, je consid\u00e8re que, compte tenu de l'impossibilit\u00e9 de mettre en place un r\u00e9gime de r\u00e9glementation adapt\u00e9 \u00e0 toutes les situations, le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"8177165\" href=\"/bills/42-1/C-14/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Criminal Code and to make related amendments to other Acts (medical assistance in dying)\">C-14</a> ne permet pas d'\u00e9tablir les balises n\u00e9cessaires de fa\u00e7on claire et convaincante.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4317381\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je rappellerai \u00e9galement que la famille Carter s'est elle-m\u00eame dite pr\u00e9occup\u00e9e par le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"8177165\" href=\"/bills/42-1/C-14/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Criminal Code and to make related amendments to other Acts (medical assistance in dying)\">C-14</a>. Cependant, dans le discours r\u00e9fl\u00e9chi qu'elle a prononc\u00e9 en cette enceinte et que j'ai beaucoup aim\u00e9, la <a data-HoCid=\"214321\" href=\"/politicians/jody-wilson-raybould/\" title=\"Jody Wilson-Raybould\">ministre de la Justice</a> a laiss\u00e9 entendre que les demandes des deux appelantes en ce qui concerne l'aide m\u00e9dicale \u00e0 mourir auraient \u00e9t\u00e9 pr\u00e9vues dans le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"8177165\" href=\"/bills/42-1/C-14/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Criminal Code and to make related amendments to other Acts (medical assistance in dying)\">C-14</a>. Ce n'est pas ce que pense la famille. La ministre a d\u00fb parler d'un \u00e9tat qui peut conduire \u00e0 une mort \u00ab raisonnablement pr\u00e9visible \u00bb. Par cons\u00e9quent, m\u00eame la distinction entre la demanderesse nomm\u00e9e dans le cas en question, la position des membres de la famille et les personnes qui les ont d\u00e9fendus va \u00e0 l'encontre du projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"8177165\" href=\"/bills/42-1/C-14/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Criminal Code and to make related amendments to other Acts (medical assistance in dying)\">C-14</a> et de la position de la ministre.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4317382\" data-originallang=\"en\">Si quelque chose montre qu'il y a d\u00e9j\u00e0 un d\u00e9rapage dangereux et qu'il est tr\u00e8s difficile d'\u00e9laborer un cadre, je crains que cette mesure l\u00e9gislative ait \u00e9t\u00e9 faite \u00e0 la h\u00e2te et qu'elle ne prot\u00e8ge pas les personnes vuln\u00e9rables dans la prise de leur d\u00e9cision. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4317383\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"8177165\" href=\"/bills/42-1/C-14/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Criminal Code and to make related amendments to other Acts (medical assistance in dying)\">C-14</a> pourrait-il \u00eatre am\u00e9lior\u00e9 ou le Parlement pourrait-il, s'il avait plus de temps, se pencher sur cette question soulev\u00e9e dans l'affaire Carter? Apr\u00e8s avoir soupes\u00e9 tous les enjeux et, je le r\u00e9p\u00e8te, en t\u00e2chant de m'appuyer sur ma propre exp\u00e9rience, comme tout le monde le fait ici, je ne crois pas que le projet de loi C-14 assure cette protection. Je continue de penser que la ligne de d\u00e9marcation trac\u00e9e dans l'arr\u00eat Sopinka et brillamment d\u00e9fendue ne se retrouve pas dans le projet de loi C-14. En outre, le projet de loi ne r\u00e9pond pas non plus \u00e0 de nombreuses pr\u00e9occupations concernant le d\u00e9rapage soulev\u00e9es par la Cour supr\u00eame. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4317384\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je me r\u00e9jouis n\u00e9anmoins que les gens se soient exprim\u00e9s sur cette question cruciale. Le Parlement ne devrait pas craindre les d\u00e9bats importants. Les d\u00e9put\u00e9s devraient avoir ici une attitude respectueuse et pond\u00e9r\u00e9e. </p>"
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