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- Title
Informing the Future of End-of-Life Care in Canada: Lessons from the Quebec Legislative Experience.
- Authors
Giroux, Michelle
- Abstract
There have been numerous and challenging developments respecting end-of- life care in Canada. In Quebec, political consensus and changes in public opinion led to the adoption of end-of-life care legislation. This paper discusses the context and foundation of that reform and reviews its content with the objective of informing the future of end-of-life care in Canada. In the first part of the paper, I explore the balancing of the right to life and autonomy, with a focus on the approach chosen in Quebec by the Legal Experts Panel Report. In Part II, I discuss Quebec’s adoption of An Act Respecting End-of-Life Care, which recognized the precedence of the right to autonomy at the end of life and what it entails. I also highlight the differences between the approaches of Quebec and the Supreme Court in the Carter decision to show how Carter affects the future of the Quebec Act and, conversely, how Quebec’s laws affect the development of federal or provincial and territorial laws as we saw with the adoption of legislation to amend the Criminal Code.
- Subjects
QUEBEC (Province); TERMINAL care laws; RIGHT to life (International law); RIGHT to self-determination; CANADA. Supreme Court; CRIMINAL codes; PALLIATIVE treatment laws
- Publication
Dalhousie Law Journal, 2016, Vol 39, Issue 2, p431
- ISSN
0317-1663
- Publication type
Article