The Liberal M-P who chaired the special joint committee on doctor assisted dying is calling for changes to what the Trudeau Government is proposing.
Rob Oliphant has a problem with requiring someone to competently declare they still want to die at the very end. Oliphant says he speaks from his own experience as a United Church minister who has been with the dying. He says most of them are on morphine at the very end of their lives and it would be cruel as well as punishing to take them off it so they could competently declare they want to die.
Oliphant says the Supreme Court has also ruled people have the right not to undergo treatment they consider unacceptable even if their affliction is curable.
Federal Justice Minister Jody Raybould-Wilson is resisting changes to the legislation.
