On February 5, MP Garnett Genuis (Sherwood Park-Fort Saskatchewan) tabled a new private members bill, C-260, the Care Not Coercion Act (or, officially, the Preventing Coercion of Persons Not Seeking Medical Assistance in Dying Act).

The Permanent Council of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) has issued a statement strongly supporting Private Member’s Bill C-218, which seeks to prevent persons whose sole medical condition is mental illness from accessing euthanasia and physician assisted suicide (“MAiD”).