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STANDING AGAINST ASSISTED SUICIDE Doctors seek protection from policy requiring them to make referral
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Events Calendar medical assistance in dying (MAID) followed a Supreme Court of Canada ruling that struck down the law forbidding physician assisted dying, saying the old law violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The federal law, however, makes Dan Pearce/Metroland
Nurse Helen McGee (left) and Dr. Natalia Novosedlik are part of the Coalition for HealthCARE and Conscience, protesting a policy that requires all health-care practitioners to refer a patient requesting assisted suicide to a doctor who would do the procedure.
DOMINIK KUREK dkurek@insidetoronto.com A number of local healthcare practitioners fear their right to choose whether or not they par-
ticipate in providing assisted suicide to patients is being taken away from them. Assisted suicide became legal in Canada in June 2016. The Canadian law to allow
no indication that healthcare professionals would have to participate in MAID. But, a College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario policy requires practitioners who con-
scientiously object to MAID to provide an effective referral to a non-objecting, available and accessible physician, nurse practi-
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