On Ash Wednesday, the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) issued a response to Bill C-7: "An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying)" which was tabled on Monday February 24, 2020.
In the response, the Bishops of Canada express their concerns with Bill C-7, which seeks to expand the eligibility criteria for euthanasia and assisted suicide by removing the "reasonable foreseeability of natural death" criterion currently in the Criminal Code, and by loosening some of the existing "safeguards" allowing patients whose death is "reasonably foreseeable" to waive final consent to receiving euthanasia by making an advance directive.
