This month the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying tabled its report on whether Canadians whose only medical condition is a mental illness should be eligible to be put to death by the state, and reached a single recommendation: don’t, indefinitely. The Globe and Mail’s André Picard was unimpressed. The committee, he wrote last week, shows the “can’t do” spirit of our legislators, and since the courts will settle it eventually, the minister should “get it over with” and refer it to the Supreme Court. Judges, he concluded, “actually make reasoned decisions. Something our politicians seem to struggle with mightily.”  Read More



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