OTTAWA—A parliamentary committee is set to recommend that Ottawa indefinitely halt plans to expand medical assistance in dying to people whose only underlying condition is mental illness, but a dissenting report is expected to challenge that conclusion — and the process used to reach it.
Two sources with knowledge of the recommendation, expected to be tabled later on Wednesday, said the committee will stress that Canada’s legal and health systems are not ready to grant such individuals access to the deeply divisive practice, and that any decision allowing for the expansion should be permanently put on pause.
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