On June 20, 2025, Tamara Jansen (MP – Cloverdale – Langley City) introduced private members Bill C-218 in the House of Commons to prevent (MAiD) euthanasia for mental illness by excluding mental disorders from being considered a “grievous and irremediable medical condition” for the purposes of MAiD. If passed no one would be eligible for MAID for mental illness alone.
Bill C-218 will likely receive it’s first hour of debate in November 2025.
When Canada expanded the euthanasia law in March 2021 by passing Bill C-7, one of the expansions in the law permitted euthanasia for a mental illness alone. At that time the government approved euthanasia for mental illness alone with a two-year moratorium to give them to prepare.
After two previous delays, last year the government delayed the implementation of euthanasia for mental illness alone until March 17, 2024.
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For Bill C-218 to be successful, we will need stories from Canadians who have lived, or currently live with mental health issues and may have died euthanasia (MAiD) if it had been available at the time. Contact us with your story at: [email protected]
A February 2023, Angus Reid Institute poll indicated that 31% of Canadians supported euthanasia for mental illness alone, with the highest support being in Quebec (36%) and the lowest support being in Saskatchewan (21%). A September 2023, Angus Reid Institute poll indicated that support for euthanasia for mental illness alone had dropped to 28% of Canadians.
Bill C-218 is identical to Bill C-314 the bill that was sponsored by the Hon. Ed Fast and narrowly defeated in parliament by a vote of 167 to 150 at second reading on October 18, 2023.
The Bill C-314 debate prompted the government to delay the implementation of euthanasia for mental illness alone until March 17, 2027.
During the Bill C-314 debate many Canadians came forward with powerful personal stories that witnessed to the fact that people who are living with mental health concerns that suicidal ideation is often a symptom of mental health concerns.
For Bill C-218 to be successful, we will need stories from Canadians who have lived with mental health issues and may have considered euthanasia if it had been available at the time. Contact us with your story at: [email protected]
It is not easy for people to share stories, but the courage to share your suffering may lead to protection for other people.
Bill C-218: (Link to Bill C-218)
An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying)
R.S., c. 46
Criminal Code
1 Subsection 241.2(2.1) of the Criminal Code is replaced by the following:Exclusion
(2.1) For the purposes of Insertion start subsection (2) Insertion end, a mental Insertion start disorder Insertion end is not Insertion start a grievous and irremediable medical condition Insertion end .
Coordinating Amendments
2 (1) In this section, other Act means An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying), chapter 2 of the Statutes of Canada, 2021.
(2) If section 1 of this Act comes into force before subsection 1(2.1) of the other Act, then that subsection 1(2.1) is repealed.
(3) If subsection 1(2.1) of the other Act comes into force before section 1 of this Act, then section 241.2 of the Criminal Code is amended by adding the following after subsection (2):Exclusion
(2.1) For the purposes of subsection (2), a mental disorder is not a grievous and irremediable medical condition.
(4) If subsection 1(2.1) of the other Act comes into force on the same day as section 1 of this Act, then that subsection 1(2.1) is deemed to have come into force before that section 1 and subsection (3) applies as a consequence.
LifeNews.com Note: Alex Schadenberg is the executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition and you can read his blog here.
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