Special Joint Committee on Physician Assisted Dying
Parliament of Canada (January-February, 2016)
Witness Presentations, Meetings 2-7
Meetings
Witnesses were heard during 10 Committee meetings. Witness
lists and links to full videos and transcripts of the meetings are
provided below. In addition, edited videos showing discussion
relevant to freedom of conscience are provided for each meeting.
Department of Justice
Joanne Klineberg, Senior Counsel, Criminal Law Policy Section
Jeanette Ettel, Counsel, Human Rights Law Section
Department of Health
Abby Hoffman, Assistant Deputy Minister, Strategic Policy
Sharon Harper, Manager, Chronic and Continuing Care Division
As an individual
Peter Hogg, Scholar in Residence, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Barreau du Québec
Marc Sauvé, Director, Research and Legislation Services
Jean-Pierre Ménard, Lawyer
External Panel on Options for a Legislative Response to
Carter v. Canada
Benoît Pelletier, Member, External Panel
Stephen Mihorean, Executive Director, Secretariat
Provincial-Territorial Expert Advisory Group on
Physician-Assisted Dying
Jennifer Gibson, Co-Chair
Maureen Taylor, Co-Chair
Canadian Medical Association
Dr. Cindy Forbes, President
Dr. Jeff Blackmer, Vice-President, Medical Professionalism
.Brief
(Brief Extracts)
Canadian Nurses Association
Anne Sutherland Boal, Chief Executive Officer
Josette Roussel, Senior Nurse Advisor
Brief(Brief Extracts)
Canadian Pharmacists Association
Carlo Berardi, Chair
Phil Emberley, Director, Professional Affairs
Brief (Brief Extracts)
Canadian Psychiatric
Association
Dr. K. Sonu Gaind, President
Katie Hardy, Director, Professional and Member Affairs
As an individual
Hon. Steven Fletcher
Council of Canadians with Disabilities
Dean Richert, Co-Chair, Ending of Life Ethics Committee
Rhonda Wiebe, Co-Chair, Ending of Life Ethics Committee
Brief
As an individual
Jocelyn Downie, Professor, Faculties of Law and Medicine,
Dalhousie University
Brief
As individuals
David Baker, Lawyer, Bakerlaw
Brief
Trudo Lemmens, Professor, Faculty of Law & Dalla Lana School of
Public Health, University of Toronto
Brief