Special Joint Committee on Physician Assisted Dying
Parliament of Canada (January-February, 2016)
Witness Presentations, Meetings 8-12
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.
British Columbia Civil Liberties Association
Josh Paterson, Executive Director
Grace Pastine, Litigation Director
Brief (Brief Extracts)
Dying With Dignity Canada
Wanda Morris, Chief Executive Officer
Shanaaz Gokool, Chief Operating Officer and National Campaigns Director
College of Family Physicians of Canada
Dr. Francine Lemire, Executive Director and Chief Executive
Officer
JCCF, BCCLA, DWD
Re: Canadian Medical Association Proposal
Alzheimer Society of Canada
Mimi Lowi-Young, Chief Executive Officer
Debbie Benczkowski, Chief Operating Officer
Canadian Cancer Society
Gabriel Miller, Director, Public Issues
Kelly Masotti, Assistant Director, Public Issues
First Nations University of Canada
Carrie Bourassa, Professor, Indigenous Health Studies
As an individual
Carolyn Ells, Associate Professor, Medicine, Biomedical Ethics
Unit, McGill University
Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association
Sharon Baxter, Executive Director
Dying With Dignity Canada
Derryck Smith, Chair of Physicians Advisory Council
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Nova Scotia
Dr. Douglas Grant, Registrar and Chief Executive Officer
Marjorie Hickey, Legal Counsel
Criminal Lawyers' Association
Leo Russomanno, Member and Criminal Defence Counsel
Indigenous Physicians Association of Canada
Dr. Alika Lafontaine, President
DWD, Ells, Canadian Hospice & Palliative Care Association>
Re: Referral/Transfer of Care
Coalition for HealthCARE and Conscience
Cardinal Thomas Collins, Archbishop, Archdiocese of Toronto
Laurence Worthen, Executive Director, Christian Medical and Dental Society of Canada
Brief (Brief Extracts)
Canadian Unitarian Council
Vyda Ng, Executive Director
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Dr. Tarek Rajji, Chief, Geriatric Psychiatry
Kristin Taylor, Vice-President, Legal Services
Brief
Canadian Paediatric Society
Dr. Dawn Davies, Chair, Bioethics Committee
Mary J Shariff, Associate Professor of Law and Associate Dean Academic, University of Manitoba
Brief (Brief Extracts)
DisAbled Women's Network of Canada
Carmela Hutchison, President
Brief
Alliance
of People with Disabilities Who Are Supportive of Legal Assisted Dying
Society
Margaret Birrell, President
Angus M. Gunn, Counsel
The Canadian
Medical Protective Association
Dr. Hartley Stern, Executive Director and Chief Executive Office
Brief (Brief Extracts)
Canadian Association for Community Living
Michael
Bach, Executive Vice-President
Society of Rural Physicians of Canada
Dr. John Soles, President