Sean Fraser: “These are not easy decisions but we believe they will be the correct ones”

The government will move forward with the committee’s recommendation to exclude people whose sole underlying condition is mental illness from receiving MAID indefinitely

There was a significant canvassing of opinions… and we felt confident that we were in a position to make a decision without simply kicking the can down the road.

Lack of consensus over when mental illness is irremediable

This second issue is extremely important to communities of people who've been diagnosed with very, very serious illnesses [that] may cause them to lose capacity subsequently.