Canadian Psychologists: Don’t Euthanize Mentally Ill Patients

Nancy Macdonald and Kathryn Blaze Baum (the authors) report in the Globe and Mail on April 30, 2026 that:

The heads of psychiatry at 13 Canadian medical schools are calling on the federal government to halt the expansion of assisted dying to people whose sole condition is mental illness.

In March 2021 with Bill C-7, Canada’s parliament extended (MAiD) euthanasia to people who are not terminally ill; parliament extended euthanasia to people with mental illness alone. At that time...