TY - GEN
T1 - Fixing Our Assisted Dying Laws With Jocelyn Downie
AU - Downie, Jocelyn
AU - Erskine-Smith, Nathaniel
N1 - Nathaniel Erskine-Smith & Jocelyn Downie, "Fixing Our Assisted Dying Laws With Jocelyn Downie" (15 October 2020), online (podcast): Uncommons: Canadian Politics With Nathaniel Erskine-Smith < uncommons.ca > [perma.cc/XBQ3-JL34].
PY - 2020/1/1
Y1 - 2020/1/1
N2 - The federal government has introduced Bill C-7 to fix our assisted dying laws and address the unconstitutionality of its past legislative effort. But there remain problems with the law as drafted, and Professor Jocelyn Downie joins Nate to discuss those problems and how to fix them. Professor Downie is an expert in the law of assisted dying in Canada. In 2004, she published a book on the subject, and she worked with a pro bono legal team in the 2015 case of Carter in which our Supreme Court unanimously recognized a constitutional right to death with dignity. Since then, Professor Downie has participated in several expert panels on physician-assisted dying, and she has been critical of the government’s legislative efforts for failing to respect the rights set out by the court in Carter .
AB - The federal government has introduced Bill C-7 to fix our assisted dying laws and address the unconstitutionality of its past legislative effort. But there remain problems with the law as drafted, and Professor Jocelyn Downie joins Nate to discuss those problems and how to fix them. Professor Downie is an expert in the law of assisted dying in Canada. In 2004, she published a book on the subject, and she worked with a pro bono legal team in the 2015 case of Carter in which our Supreme Court unanimously recognized a constitutional right to death with dignity. Since then, Professor Downie has participated in several expert panels on physician-assisted dying, and she has been critical of the government’s legislative efforts for failing to respect the rights set out by the court in Carter .
KW - Medical Assistance in Dying
KW - Parliament of Canada
KW - Legislation
KW - Carter
KW - Canada
KW - Supreme Court of Canada
UR - https://digitalcommons.schulichlaw.dal.ca/scholarly_works/1259
UR - https://uncommons.ca/2020/10/15/episode-47-fixing-our-assisted-dying-laws-with-jocelyn-downie/
M3 - Other contribution
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