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Updates: Bill C-7, Judicial bias, Wrongful Deaths, and Organ Harvesting identified


My name is Roger Foley. I am the patient who has been in Victoria Hospital for over 4-years being pressured into assisted dying by the hospital and Government while they prevent my access to care options I need to live 1, 2. I have important public interest updates.

The Hospital is currently billing me $1800 dollars per day and continuing to coerce me to Assisted Dying during the Covid-19 pandemic when they threatened me with that and offered me Assisted Dying. Instead of protecting the lives of the elderly, the disabled and the vulnerable, the Hospital and Government are taking advantage, by further exploiting and abusing persons who are vulnerable before and during Covid-19 and not protecting their lives across the Country. So many persons are dying unnecessary deaths, when robust self-directed home care would make all Canadians safer in their own homes.

The Government cannot be trusted and they admitted rather than preparing for the Covid-19 pandemic, they were selling their exploitation and abuse of vulnerable Canadians to Assisted Dying rather than calling China to learn about the threat, ordering ventilators, protecting those in Long-Term Care facilities and Group Homes, and ordering Personal Protecting Equipment for Health Care workers to make sure frontline Health Care workers were safe. They also during the Pandemic in March, when thousands of people were dying, released their bias propaganda assisted dying expansion survey to continue to abuse, exploit and end the lives of vulnerable disabled and elderly Canadians. I am continuing to be attacked through my care, being denied basic necessities of life, and being denied proper and dignified health care. I am very scared, and the Government and the Health Care systems want to end my life rather than help me to live with dignity and compassion.

 

The United Nations (UN) released new reports recommending Canada investigate "persons with disabilities .. being pressured into seeking medical assistance in dying and establish adequate safeguards" 3. The UN also sent a complaint to the Government regarding my situation 4. The UN is also concerned that "eugenic aspirations persist in current debates .. concerning disability, such as .. assisted dying" 5.

Instead of preventing eugenics, the Federal Government is embracing it's eugenic aspirations tabling Bill C-7 to expand the eligibility scope of their Assisted dying regime, while ignoring all the abuses that have happened so far 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 32, 56. Bill C-7 is a response to the Quebec Truchon decision. However, both the Carter and Truchon decisions were infested with undeclared conflicts of interest and bias, where those judgements are illegitimate. Canada has never had a fair and impartial hearing pertaining to assisted dying. Fixed and staged events accompanied by intense propaganda 48 has resulted in our constitutional law being eroded and international law being flouted.

 

The plaintiffs’ evidence in the Truchon case used writings and positions by Justice Christine Baudouin’s father, Jean-Louis Baudouin 12, 13. For decades, the Baudouin family has expressed a predetermined bias that assisted dying should be void of safeguards denying that any abuses have happened 14, 15, 16, 17. Christine Baudouin has publicly proclaimed that she shares her father’s positions 18, 19, 20, her biased decision to expand Canada's assisted dying regime was for her father and not for the well-being of our country.

When deciding Carter 2012, Trial Judge Lynn Smith had personal relationships with the plaintiffs impacting her ability to judge the case. Lynn Smith was a former board member of the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) 21, 22, 23. Additionally, Smith's daughter was also working with BCCLA 24, 25, 26, 27, and Lee Carter’s lead counsel in other trials during Carter 2012 28, 29, 30, 31. Lynn Smith’s daughter’s career and future income were determined by the plaintiffs, Smith made assisted dying legal for her daughter's gain and not for the benefit of our country.

When deciding Carter 2015, Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin had multi-decade personal relationships with the then BCCLA President 33, 34, 35 and Director 36, 37, 38, and also with the Carter 2012 Trial Judge Lynn Smith 39. Additionally, Beverley confessed In her memoir that she had an attachment to assisted suicide with her previous husband Rory asking for her help to end his life a couple of years before she heard the Rodriguez case 40, 41. Beverley weighed recusing herself from Rodriguez but did not, instead dissenting to the ban being upheld 40, 41.

After the Rodriguez case, Beverley said her dissents "provide seeds for future developments" 42 and then she launched her own media campaign to manipulate jurisprudence leading up to Carter 43, 44, 45. These factors are also why Lynn Smith’s bias in Carter 2012 went unchallenged. Beverley sought to change the law to what she and Rory prefer it to be.

* Additionally, Beverley began launching her own media campaign to manipulate jurisprudence on January 7th 2010 43, at a time when elected Members of Parlament (MPs) were rejecting Assisted Suicide in order to protect vunerable citizens 46. Bill C-384 "An Act to amend the Criminal Code (Right to Die with Dignity)" was defeated by a 228-59 margin April 21st 2010 47.

Beverley’s opinion strongly conflicted with MPs who had valid reasons for opposing Assisted Dying, but Beverley's wrongful exploitation of her position as Chief Justice helped her to influence the media toward a pro-euthanasia movement undermining the MPs. Beverley’s 2010 declaration of her personal bias also gave BCCLA and Joseph Arvay the fuel to participate in the public narrative 44, and to further ignore the proven risks to vunerable populations and inadequate services for vulnerable and disabled people.
You can read and watch my review of Beverly McLachlin's audiobook Truth Be Told: My Journey Through Life and the Law at this link, www.assistedlife.ca/mclachlinaudiobookreview.html

 

Other fixed and staged events include the Lamb case and Audrey's Amendment.

The Lamb vs Canada case was a case of BCCLA scoring in the Government's empty net 49, 50. The Government didn't defend safeguards to protect vulnerable persons, they helped to slide the expansion of the "reasonably foreseeable" criteria into vague hypothetical "if" scenarios being used as valid legal reasons to provide vulnerable persons with an assisted death 51. The Government lawyers retained an expert to help the adversarial party in Lamb, where the challenge to expand the term "reasonably foreseeable" was adjourned. "reasonably foreseeable" expanded so much over the span of just three years, that doctors interpret it to mean as much as or more than 20-years before natural death 52, 53, 54, 55. During Lamb, both the Federal Attorney General (AG) and Attorney General of British Columbia (AG BC) had major conflicts of interest and significant bias which resulted in ineffective counsel failing to protect the interests of vulnerable Canadians 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62.

Bill C-7's Advanced Consent clause is also known as Audrey's Amendment, which was based on deception revealing the dangers of activist organizations. Audrey Parker chose a premature assisted death based on incorrect information that she was about to lose capacity. In fact, Audrey admitted within her public statements that her tumor had not spread into her brain, it was on the lining of her brain where she was not at risk of loosing capacity before nor right after Christmas 2018 63, 64, 65. Dying with Dignity (DWDC) misled Audrey into believing that she would lose capacity to build a false narrative creating a better image for their campaigns. Audrey's death should have been a criminal code investigation, not a glorified media event used to deceive public jurisprudence.

 

Canada's assisted dying regime is sliding out of control so fast that some health care staff are advocating for the "dead donor rule" to be voided so they can euthanize people by means of removing their vital organs to cause their death 66, 67, 68, 69. Organizations are also soliciting persons approved for assisted death to donate their organs and a presumed consent organ donation regime is being implemented upon citizens as well 70. Combining assisted dying with organ donation and with presumed consent donation and Advanced Consent euthanasia corrupts the intention and purpose of a person’s request for assisted dying or if they even consented at all.

 

I have seen and heard of so many vulnerable persons being pressured into wrongful assisted deaths, I feel a responsibly to speak out about the truth of what is really happening. The public is being mislead. MAiD doesn't truly mean Medical Assistance in Dying, it's true meaning is Mislead Answers in Dying 71.

Additional updates, information, and links to evidence are available on my website AssistedLife.ca

 

Thank you for your time.

Roger Foley.


Source links and footnotes:

1. per CTV News; Chronically ill man releases audio of hospital staff offering assisted death; at https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/chronically-ill-man-releases-audio-of-hospital-staff-offering-assisted-death-1.4038841

2. per CTV News; Extended audio of conversations between Ontario patient Roger Foley and hosptal staff; at https://www.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=1454306

3. per page 20 of Visit to Canada, Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities A/HRC/43/41/Add.2 (December 19th 2019); at https://undocs.org/en/A/HRC/43/41/Add.2

4. per United Nations letter (August 2019) at https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/DownLoadPublicCommunicationFile?gId=24754

5. per page 17 of Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, Human Rights Council Forty-third session; December 17th 2019; A/HRC/43/41; at https://undocs.org/en/A/HRC/43/41

6. per CBC News; Mother says doctor brought up assisted suicide option as sick daughter was within earshot; "His words were 'assisted suicide death was legal in Canada,'" she told CBC. "I was shocked, and said, 'Well, I'm not really interested,' and he told me I was being selfish." According to Elson, Lewis was within earshot when the doctor made the comment — which she said was quite traumatic for her daughter to hear; at https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/doctor-suggested-assisted-suicide-daughter-mother-elson-1.4218669

7. per CTV News; 'We need a public outcry': B.C. father with ALS ends life after struggle to stay at home; Tagert’s case has drawn national attention, including the Canadian Society of Palliative Care Physicians, whose president told CTV News Tagert’s case is exactly the kind of situation slammed by a UN Special Rapporteur who called on the federal government to “provide the necessary support for persons with disabilities to live independently in their communities. This should be recognized as a human right and not merely as social assistance program."; at https://bc.ctvnews.ca/we-need-a-public-outcry-b-c-father-with-als-ends-life-after-struggle-to-stay-at-home-1.4543983

8. per CTV News; 'Barely hanging on to life': Roger Foley shares his fight for home care with UN envoy; In her statement, Devandas Aguilar said she was “extremely concerned” about the implications of assisted dying legislation on people with disabilities after hearing multiple complaints. “I urge the federal government to investigate these complaints and put into place adequate safeguards to ensure that persons with disabilities do not request assistive dying simply because of the absence of community-based alternatives and palliative care,” she wrote; at https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/barely-hanging-on-to-life-roger-foley-shares-his-fight-for-home-care-with-un-envoy-1.4378334

9. per the Montreal Gazette; Saying goodbye to Archie Rolland, who chose to die; Archie Rolland vowed to end his life rather continue to suffer at a long-term care facility in Lachine he said was treating him inhumanely. On July 4, Roland fled the facility. Three days later, he was dead; at https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/saying-goodbye-to-archie-rolland/

10. per laTribune; Dénoncer avant de mourir; Son état de santé lui permet. Les conditions de vie au CHSLD ont facilité sa prise de décision. Raymond Bourbonnais aura recours à l’aide médicale à mourir le 5 décembre. Mais avant de partir, l’homme de 79 ans lance un cri du cœur. « Après un an en CHSLD où j’ai constaté une constante dégradation des services, je vous demanderais de faire tout votre possible pour mettre de la pression sur le gouvernement pour qu’il réveille ses hauts fonctionnaires qui dorment dans leur bureau à l’air conditionné. Le problème de main-d’œuvre est devenu journalier et il s’aggrave dangereusement les fins de semaine », souligne celui qui, depuis plus de sept ans, souffre d’atrophie musculaire spinale; at https://www.latribune.ca/actualites/denoncer-avant-de-mourir-video-6b5b5b9901c42d9660ec5ba19a0eda78

11. per CTV News; Two Canadians want next prime minister to push for 'assistance in living,' not assisted dying; "They were willing to help me kill myself without helping me to live." … "I’m so shackled that I don’t see any purpose to stay alive." These are just some of the words Jonathan Marchand and Lisa D’Amico want to say to the next prime minister of Canada. Marchand has had a form of muscular dystrophy since he was 15. He is now in his 40s and on a ventilator. D’Amico was born with cerebral palsy and has lived with it for more than half a century. Neither Marchand nor D’Amico want to die, but both say the lack of government support leaves people in their situation with no real choices, and push some into so much distress that euthanasia is a welcome option. “Several doctors have offered me euthanasia -- what they call ‘comfort care’ -- to end my life. There is no support for people like myself to live outside hospitals in Quebec,” said Marchand in a video statement, adding that he never asked to die.; at https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/two-canadians-want-next-prime-minister-to-push-for-assistance-in-living-not-assisted-dying-1.4619767

12. per page 12, 96, 178, 228, 350, 352, and 372 of Mettre en œuvre les recommandations de la Commission spéciale de l’Assemblée nationale sur la question de mourir dans la dignité by the Comité de juristes; [per 12] Marcel Boisvert, « Droit de mourir et droit à la mort : le point de vue du médecin », dans Jean-Louis Baudouin; [per 96] Voir aussi Robert P. Kouri, « Le traitement futile et le devoir de soigner en droit québécois: l'impact normatif du désespoir » dans Benoit Moore (dir.), Mélanges Jean-Louis Baudouin; [per 178] Albert Mayrand, « L'autorité du précédent au Québec », dans J.-L. Baudouin; [per 228] Jean-Louis Baudoin et Danielle Blondeau, Éthique de la mort et droit à la mort; [per 350] Comme l’exprimait Jean-Louis Baudouin, « dans nos sociétés développées l’individu a été exproprié de sa mort par la science médicale » et il ajoutait : « [l]e premier devoir du médecin n’est donc plus de sauver la vie à tout prix, mais plutôt de respecter la liberté de choix de son patient »; [per 350] Voir aussi les réflexions de Haïlou Wolde-Giorghis, « Le dilemme de la société occidentale face à la revendication du « droit» à l’aide médicale ultime au suicide », dans Benoit Moore (dir.), Mélanges Jean-Louis Baudouin; [per 350] Jean-Louis Baudouin, « Rapport de synthèse », dans Travaux de l’Association Henri Capitant, Le droit de la santé : aspects nouveaux. Journées suisses; [per 352] Voir notamment Suzanne Nootens, « Du don de vie au choix de mort. Brèves réflexions sur l’autonomie », dans Benoit Moore (dir.), Mélanges Jean-Louis Baudouin; [per 372] Voir sur ce point Jean-Louis Baudouin, « Rapport de synthèse »; at https://www.msss.gouv.qc.ca/inc/documents/ministere/salle-de-presse/rapport_comite_juristes_experts.pdf

13. per pages 5, 12, 13,15, 27, 28, 55, 75, 77, and 84 of POUR DES SOINS DE FIN DE VIE RESPECTUEUX DES PERSONNES by BARREAU DU QUÉBEC (2010); [per 5] Les grandes craintes des personnes en fin de vie peuvent être de deux ordres. Le premier est ainsi décrit par l’honorable Jean-Louis Baudouin; [per 5] Jean-Louis Baudouin, Rapport synthèse, Congrès de l’Association Henri Capitant, Journées Suisses; [per 12] Les grandes craintes des personnes en fin de vie peuvent être de deux ordres. Le premier est ainsi décrit par l’honorable Jean-Louis Baudouin; [per 13] Jean-Louis Baudouin, Rapport synthèse, Congrès de l’Association Henri Capitant, Journées Suisses; [per 15] Cette évolution des législations étrangères n’est pas sans conséquence. L’honorable JeanLouis Baudouin en tirait les conclusions suivantes dans les Journées Suisses du Congrès de l’Association Henri Capitant en 2009; [per 27] C’est ce que soulignent les auteurs Baudouin et Blondeau; [per 28] Jean-Louis Baudouin, Danielle Blondeau, Éthique de la mort et droit à la mort; [per 75] Jean-Louis Baudouin, Danielle Blondeau, op. cit [per 55]; Jean-Louis Baudouin, Danielle Blondeau, op. cit; [per 77] Jean-Louis Baudouin, Danielle Blondeau. op. cit; [per 84] Jean-Louis Baudouin, Danielle Blondeau, op. cit; at https://web.archive.org/web/20131107155137/https://www.barreau.qc.ca/pdf/medias/positions/2010/20100930-soins-fin-vie.pdf

14. per page 10 of Rapport synthèse, Congrès de l’Association Henri Capitant, Journées Suisses (2009) by Jean-Louis Baudouin; “Les études belges et néerlandaises sur le sujet montrent que le système de contrôle mis en place pour éviter les erreurs (argument dominant des opposants) fonctionne bien et que, s’ils existent, les cas de bavures sont rares sinon inexistants. L’argument donc de la pente glissante ou du dérapage, invoqué pour l’écarter dans toutes les hypothèses a désormais moins de poids qu’on pourrait le croire.”; at https://savoirs.usherbrooke.ca/bitstream/handle/11143/10455/12_Baudouin_2009_2010_40_1_2.pdf

15. per Éthique de la mort et droit à la mort (1994) by Jean-Louis Baudouin; preview at https://assets.edenlivres.fr/medias/27/4c5833c46eed387e94f3c2d01df0fa41e20425.pdf and available at https://www.amazon.ca/%C3%89thique-mort-droit-%C3%A0-French-ebook/dp/B07MMD3QDL/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0

16. per Rapport annuel 2011-2012 Chaire Jean-Louis Baudouin en droit civil; La journée s’est poursuivie avec l’atelier «Droit sur la vie – choix de la mort : bioéthique et droit» sur lequel sont intervenues les professeures Danielle Blondeau, Catherine Labrusse-Riou et Suzanne PhilipsNootens.; 15 h Séance II Droits sur la vie – Choix de la mort : bioéthique et droit; at https://chairejlb.openum.ca/files/sites/38/2010/11/rapport2011_2012.pdf

17. per CBC Radio-Canada's Le 21e Avec Michel Lacombe (15 avril 2011); Spécialiste des questions de bioéthique, le juge Baudouin affirme que c'est aux politiciens et non aux juges de trancher les débats de société comme la légalisation de l'euthanasie. Selon lui, nous allons assister à une décriminalisation progressive de l'aide au suicide parce que la Couronne sera de moins en moins encline à poursuivre ceux qui mettent fin aux souffrances de leurs proches. ; at http://ici.radio-canada.ca/emissions/le_21e/2015-2016/chronique.asp?idChronique=146965

18. per DROIT-INC by Agnès Wojciechowicz on 2012-03-27; Jean-Louis et moi; “La fille du professeur, Christine Baudouin, également avocate, a décrit son père, comme “un humble pathologique”. Avant d’entrer à la faculté de droit de l’université de Montréal, elle ignorait tout de la popularité de son père dans le milieu juridique. Elle s’en est vite rendue compte lorsqu’elle devint ultra populaire à la faculté. “Les étudiants insistaient pour étudier avec elle, puisqu’elle habitait toujours avec sa famille, relate Me Salehabadi”; at https://www.droit-inc.com/article7269-Jean-Louis-et-moi

19. per Rapport annuel 2011-2012 Chaire Jean-Louis Baudouin en droit civil; Me Christine Baudouin présenta de façon humoristique son père sous un jour jusqu’alors peu connu.; Après une présentation de Me Christine Baudouin, la fille de Jean-Louis Baudouin, et la conférence d’ouverture, prononcée par la professeure Camille Jauffret-Spinosi, avait lieu le premier atelier intitulé «Jean-Louis Baudouin et l’évolution du droit civil» auquel participait l’honorable Paul-Arthur Gendreau ainsi que l’honorable Nicholas Kasirer.; at https://chairejlb.openum.ca/files/sites/38/2010/11/rapport2011_2012.pdf

20. per Droit et assistance médicale à mourir (16 novembre 2016); Christine Baudouin, avocate, Casavant Mercier, Avocats; L’aide médicale à mourir est maintenant autorisée au Canada. Pourtant, les débats à ce sujet sont loin d’être clos. Plusieurs questions restent encore à traiter, notamment quant à la difficile conciliation entre différents points de vue, tant médicaux que juridiques sur la question. Comment l’aide médicale à mourir a-t-elle évolué au Québec, au Canada et à l’étranger? Quels sont les débats à venir? Telles seront les questions abordées par les conférenciers.; at https://www.calendrier.umontreal.ca/droit/?com=detail&eID=724476

21. per the Britsh Columbia Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) 2003 Annual Report; Indeed, the roster of past board members reads like a who’s who of British Columbia notables: Michael Audain, Thomas Berger, Bill Deverell, Harry Rankin, Lynn Smith, Mary Southin, Josiah Wood, to name only a few; at https://bccla.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/2003-BCCLA-Report-Annual-Report.pdf

22. per UBC Allard School of Law event poster (2015); At various times, she served on the Boards of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association; at http://allard.ubc.ca/sites/www.allard.ubc.ca/files/uploads/events/grad/smith_poster.pdf

23. per UBC Lynn Smith biography; At various times, she served on the Boards of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association; at https://president.ubc.ca/files/2015/08/brief_bio_lynn_smith.pdf

24. per pages 16 and 19 of the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association 2011 Annual Report; Ms. Worm is represented by Robert Janes and Elin Sigurdson of Janes, Freedman Kyle and Grace Pastine, Carmen Cheung and Raji Mangat of the BCCLA. (per 16); WE EXTEND OUR DEEPEST GRATITUDE to the lawyers who have volunteered their time for the BCCLA in 2011....Elin Sigurdson (per 19); at https://bccla.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/20120515-BCCLA-Report-Annual-Report.pdf

25. per pages 16 and 20 of the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association 2012 Annual Report; Ms. Worm is represented by Robert Janes, Elin Sigurdson and Erin Thompson of Janes, Freedman Kyle and Grace Pastine, Carmen Cheung and Raji Mangat of the BCCLA. (per 16); WE EXTEND OUR DEEPEST GRATITUDE to the lawyers who have volunteered their time for the BCCLA in 2012...Elin Sigurdson (per 20); at https://bccla.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/2013-Annual-Report-for-2012.pdf

26. per page 10 THE BRITISH COLUMBIA CIVIL LIBERTIES ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTER SUMMER 2012 / VOLUME 46 NUMBER 2; Ms. Worm is represented by Robert Janes and Elin Sigurdson of Janes, Freedman Kyle and Grace Pastine, Carmen Cheung and Raji Mangat of the BCCLA. (per 10); at https://bccla.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2012-Newsletter-Democratic-Commitment.pdf

27. per page 5 of THE BRITISH COLUMBIA CIVIL LIBERTIES ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTER SUMMER 2014 / VOLUME 48 NUMBER 2; Elin Sigurdson, JFK Law Corporation (pictured with BCCLA award)....Excellence in Legal Advocacy – Firm JFK Law Corporation is being honoured for their pro bono work on the BCCLA’s Worm v. Canada case. JFK Law Corporation worked tirelessly alongside the BCCLA (per 5); at https://bccla.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/2014-Summer-Newsletter-Democratic-Commitment.pdf

28. per Downtown Eastside Sex Workers United Against Violence Society v. Canada (Attorney General), 2011 BCCA 515 (CanLII); Counsel for the Appellants: J.J. Arvay, Q.C., E.R.S. Sigurdson, K. Pacey; at https://www.canlii.org/en/bc/bcca/doc/2011/2011bcca515/2011bcca515.html

29. per June 2011 Pivot Legal blog titled SWUAV, PACE and Pivot fight for sex workers' rights in Ontario appeal; I was there with Elin Sigurdson and Joseph Arvay, who I have had the incredible fortune of working with as co-counsel over the years. (Photo of Elin Sigurdson, Joseph Arvay, and K Pacey embracing together in June 2011); at https://web.archive.org/web/20111224045751/http://www.pivotlegal.org/pivot-points/blog/swuav-pace-and-pivot-fight-for-sex-workers-rights-in-ontario-appeal

30. per Supreme Court of Canada Docket 33981 Attorney General of Canada v. Downtown Eastside Sex Workers United Against Violence Society, et al.; 2012-01-06 Notice of appearance, Joseph Arvay, Elin Sigurdson and Katrina Pacey will be present at the hearing. Downtown Eastside Sex Workers United Against Violence Society; at https://www.scc-csc.ca/case-dossier/info/dock-regi-eng.aspx?cas=33981

31. per Canada (Attorney General) v. Downtown Eastside Sex Workers United Against Violence Society, 2012 SCC 45 (CanLII), [2012] 2 SCR 524; Joseph J. Arvay, Q.C., Elin R. S. Sigurdson and Katrina Pacey, for the respondents.; at https://www.canlii.org/en/ca/scc/doc/2012/2012scc45/2012scc45.html

32. per TVA Nouvelles «Donnez-nous plus de soins et on n’aura pas l’idée de demander l'aide à mourir» (22 janvier 2020); at https://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2020/01/22/donnez-nous-plus-de-soins-et-on-naura-pas-lidee-de-demander-laide-a-mourir

33. per PETER A. ALLARD SCHOOL OF LAW Lindsay Lyster webpage profile; While working as a research assistant for Dean Peter Burns, she was introduced to Madam Justice McLachlin and offered a job over dinner. “It was completely not the way it’s done now.”; at https://historyproject.allard.ubc.ca/law-history-project/profile/lindsay-m-lyster

34. per 9m23s of the Allard Law History Project audio interview with Lindsay Lyster; Back to Dean Burns. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. So, of course Madam Justice McLachlin had been a Professor here at UBC, of course. And, Dean Burns knew her. And while I was, I think while I was still in first year taking his torts class, or it might have been in the summer after first year, because I was a research assistant Dean Burns. He introduced me to Justice McLachlin, organized a very fancy dinner with her and her, she wasn’t married to Frank yet. Me and my husband was there, Dean Burns and his wife. Anyways, so he introduced me to her. And she offered me the job over dinner. So it was completely not the way it’s done now. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. So, I never went through the whole process of putting in the general application and going through the rounds of interviews and all that business......I don’t. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. I think we might have talked about how horrible the library was at the old law-school building. But, I don’t remember what we talked about. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.; at http://historyproject.allard.ubc.ca/sites/historyproject.law.ubc.ca/files/profile/lindsay_lyster.mp3

35. per 42m17s of the video Wesbrook Talks – The Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C by The University of British Columbia; at https://youtu.be/esYIq1zd5Y8?t=2537

36. per Chapter 15 of Truth Be Told: My Journey Through Life and the Law (2019) by Beverley McLachlin; Many of my students became my friends. They kept turning up throughout my life, in satisfying incarnations. One, Hugh Stansfield, became chief judge of the Provincial Court of British Columbia and a champion of alternative courts to help mentally ill and addicted young people. Another, Kim Campbell, went on to become a federal justice minister and the first female prime minister of Canada.; at Google books preview regarding Beverley McLachlin and Kim Campbell relationship first mention

37. per Chapter 18 of Truth Be Told: My Journey Through Life and the Law (2019) by Beverley McLachlin; at Google books preview regarding Beverley McLachlin and Kim Campbell relationship second mention

38. per the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association 2014 Annual Report on pages of the Index, 2, 3, ; BOARD OF DIRECTORS Lindsay M. Lyster PRESIDENT (per Index); HONORARY DIRECTORS....Rt. Hon. Kim Campbell (per Index); PRESIDENT’S REPORT / LINDSAY M. LYSTER (per 2, 3); The BCCLA was represented by Lindsay M. Lyster and Jessica Derynck of Moore Edgar Lyster. (per 15); the BCCLA would like to recognize the more than 50 pro bono lawyerswho have generously contributed their time and expertise to our legal cases this year...Lindsay M. Lyster Moore Edgar Lyster Lawyers; at https://bccla.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/2014-Annual-Report.pdf

39. per pages 2, 3, 5, 8, 9, 21, and 24 of Re-living the 1964 International Seminar of World University Service of Canada 50 years later and where we went after that (November 2014); Beverley McLachlin - peers into our dimming eyes and finds a youthful spark (per 2); Lynn Smith - remembers Algeria’s revolutionary government decreed gender equality — but it doesn’t work that way (per 2); By Beverley McLachlin Sainte-Adèle was the same — bucolic, quiet, quaint and a little out of date. But everything else had utterly changed — or so I thought at first. For starters — and what could I have expected? —we all looked different (per 3); List of participants....Beverley Gietz, Edmonton....Carol Lynn Smith, Calgary (per 5); by Lynn Smith In 1964, the recent revolution had not only expelled the French from Algeria and ended its status as a French colony, but also had promised transformative economic I and social changes....I think that all of us who were so fortunate as to attend the seminar were greatly affected by it. (per 8, 9); Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice of Canada (per 21); Lynn Smith, Judge (per 24); at http://assets.wusc.ca/WUSCwebsite/1964-compendium.pdf

40. per http://www.assistedlife.ca/mclachlinaudiobookreview-rf-video.mp4

41. per http://www.assistedlife.ca/mclachlinaudiobookreview.html

42. per the December 2009 Agenda with Steve Paikin inteview with Beverley McLachlin at 13m16s, were she admitted her dissents are intentional to provide seeds for future developments.; there is a view that the dissents provide seeds for future developments; at https://youtu.be/osKitRF30aU?t=796

43. per Globe and Mail's article Ten years as top judge and she's still losing sleep (January 7, 2010); The cases that she said trouble her the most tend to involve human rights - such as a 1993 case where the court ruled 5-4 against a B.C. woman, Sue Rodriguez, who wanted to be euthanized before a debilitating disease could rob her of all movement. It is the sort of decision that motivates her to bounce ideas off colleagues or take long, pensive walks. ‘Sometimes, that is when all the things that have been percolating somehow come together,’ she said.; at https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ten-years-as-top-judge-and-shes-still-losing-sleep/article1366103/

44. per Toronto Star's article Right-to-Die: Heading toward Sue Rodriguez 2 (July 20, 2011) referencing BCCLA’s lead counsel Joseph Arvay announcing that McLachlin's bias will work well to favour his Carter case results; To Arvay’s mind, there is still one more factor suggesting the possibility of a historic reversal of the split 5-4 Rodriguez ruling: the only Supreme Court justice who was sitting on the bench in 1993 and who is still there today is Beverley McLachlin. She is now the chief justice of Canada, and in 1993 she voted with the minority — in favour of granting Rodriguez the right to assisted suicide; at https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/2011/07/20/righttodie_heading_toward_sue_rodriguez_2.html

45. per 35m51s of Beverley McLachlin’s lecture at the University of Western Ontario on October 26, 2012 talking about assisted dying. At this time, it was known that the Carter case was going to the BC Court of Appeal and then the Supreme Court, it is a mere 4 minutes after where she said “I can’t comment on anything that’s going to come before the court.”; I never can answer that question. I get asked a lot. It’s usually the last case I was worried about. Different questions have different areas of complexity, you know. And it comes out to different ways. You can get morally complex questions; Things involving, you know, like the right-to-suicide or something like that; at https://youtu.be/6n2Ukv3_B44?t=2151

46. per the CBC News article Assisted suicide voted down by MPs (April 21st 2010); The House of Commons has rejected a Bloc Québécois MP’s legislation to permit assisted suicide in Canada under strict conditions. Bill C-384 was defeated Wednesday afternoon on second reading by a 228-59 margin.; MPs were concerned it would take the country down a "slippery slope" in which severely disabled or dying people could be euthanized without their consent.; at https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/assisted-suicide-voted-down-by-mps-1.910839

47. per Vote #34 on April 21st, 2010 Bill C-384 An Act to amend the Criminal Code (right to die with dignity); Result Yes 59 - No 228 - Paired 4; at https://openparliament.ca/votes/40-3/34/

48. per CTV National News reporting the October 10th 2019 Election Debate staged propaganda to expand Canada's Assisted Dying regime; at http://www.assistedlife.ca/CTVNews-ElectionDebatePropagandaToExpandMAiD-Oct10th2019.mp4

49. per the CBC News article B.C. woman wins right to receive medically assisted death (Sept 18th 2019); Dr. Madeline Li, a physician, MAID provider and researcher in Ontario, said in her opinion, doctors and nurse practitioners feel they can provide MAID only when they have confidence a patient’s death is imminent. But Li stated that Lamb is at risk of developing a chest infection if she ever stopped using her nighttime ventilator, and that a chest infection would make her natural death reasonably foreseeable.; The government’s evidence suggests that anyone requiring personal care such as regular turning in bed, being fed, requiring regular dressing changes or in-dwelling catheters, would meet the eligibility requirement for a reasonably foreseeable death if they decide to refuse that care. And mercifully, they are not required to actually do so in order to qualify; at https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-woman-wins-right-to-receive-medically-assisted-death-1.5276011

50. per The Canadian Press' video Lawsuit adjourned because severely ill woman and others like her can seek assisted death (Sep 24, 2019); The Government’s uncontested evidence in the case, is that Julia qualifies for medical assistance in dying if she requests it.; at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efqRNey5j2s

51. per CTV news article Assisted-death lawsuit adjourned, government evidence widens eligibility: lawyer (September 18th 2019); The law says that only people who have a "reasonably foreseeable" natural death qualify, but a government expert has filed a report that states some doctors are now interpreting this category to include people who refuse care that would prolong their lives.; But a recent report filed by government expert Dr. Madeline Li, a physician and assisted-death provider with the University Health Network in Toronto, outlined a scenario in which some doctors would likely find Lamb eligible for medical assistance in dying. Li wrote that initially after the law was enacted, medical practitioners were more cautious and only provided the procedure when a patient had a very short life expectancy. At the time Lamb filed the civil claim, the reasonably foreseeable death criteria may have been a barrier to her. If Lamb requested an assisted death now, a doctor could find her eligible because she's at risk of developing a chest infection, Li wrote. If she was to stop using a ventilator that helps her breathe at night and refuse treatment for the inevitable chest infection, then her natural death would become reasonably foreseeable.; The law as it stands contains enough flexibility in the interpretation of the end of life criteria that it is not a barrier for practitioners who are comfortable with expanding access.; at https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/assisted-death-lawsuit-adjourned-government-evidence-widens-eligibility-lawyer-1.4599170

52. Judge rules Ontario woman meets requirement for medically assisted death (June 19th 2017); A judge says an Ontario woman with incurable erosive osteoarthritis fits a key requirement to receive a medically assisted death after her doctor refused to help her because he feared criminal prosecution.; at https://toronto.citynews.ca/2017/06/19/judge-rules-ontario-woman-meets-requirement-for-medically-assisted-death/

53. per at 33-minutes-45-seconds of a Institute For Research On Public Policy (IRPP) webinar (September 25, 2018) called Interpreting Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying Legislation interviewing Jocelyn Downie; So, you could have a circumstance of anorexia, extreme anorexia in which the individual fully understood the nature and consequences of their condition, of their decision. They’re found to be capable, they’re found to have this be a voluntary decision. And, so then they would be eligible because their natural death would be reasonably foreseeable.; at https://youtu.be/ZPMHwwqHVzE?t=2024

54. per at 34-minutes-12-seconds of a Institute For Research On Public Policy (IRPP) webinar (September 25, 2018) called Interpreting Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying Legislation interviewing Jocelyn Downie; Another example comes because when the legislation was introduced people suddenly said they looked at reasonably foreseeable and said - wait, what, that’s narrower than Carter - Kay Carter wouldn’t have qualified. And the minister said back - No Kay Carter would have qualified - and the thing is that Kay Carter wasn’t terminally ill. She didn’t have, she wasn’t, she wouldn’t have, if you looked at actuarial tables where she wouldn’t have been anticipated to die for a number of years. And what the Government pointed to was a concept of frailty, she was very very old. And so you could I guess look and see that there could be circumstances in which somebody who has mental disorder as their sole underlying medical condition, and is very old qualifies because of what the government, what the government said. So those would be the two kinds of circumstances in which somebody with a mental disorder as their sole underlying medical condition could qualify.; at https://youtu.be/ZPMHwwqHVzE?t=2051

55. per June 30, 2017, Dr. Jatinder Baidwan, chief medical officer and coroner for the BC Coroner’s Service, wrote to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia (CPSBC) questioning whether Ms. S.’s death was reasonably foreseeable, given that “her decision to decline treatment arguably contributed to the serious nature of her disease and her act of voluntarily stopping eating and drinking precipitated her advanced state of decline.; at http://eol.law.dal.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/College-letter-.pdf

56. per CTV News article and broadcasts Family says B.C. man with history of depression wasn't fit for assisted death (September 24, 2019); A British Columbia man who struggled with depression and showed no signs of facing an imminent demise was given a medically-assisted death despite desperate pleas from his loved ones, family members say. Alan Nichols was admitted to Chilliwack General Hospital in June, at age 61, after he was found dehydrated and malnourished. One month later, he died by injection.; at https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/family-says-b-c-man-with-history-of-depression-wasn-t-fit-for-assisted-death-1.4609016

57. per Vancouver Sun’s article NDP Rebuffed In Court Crusade Over Pipeline (February 26th 2019) showing that David Eby hired Joseph Arvay to represent AG BC at the same time Arvay is suing the Government as the lawyer representing BCCLA and Julia Lamb in Lamb v Canada; Nevertheless he proceeded to hire legal heavyweight Joe Arvay to file the constitutional challenge that has now been rebuffed. However Eby decides to proceed in that case, the government will be back in court next month on a different aspect of the pipeline fight.; at https://www.pressreader.com/canada/vancouver-sun/20190226/281651076395398

58. per Globe and Mail article Governments ordered to pay B.C. lawyers $1-million for right-to-die casework (November 2nd 2012); David Eby of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association, which championed the case, told the court it was the most expensive piece of litigation the association had ever undertaken, and the costs were much higher than expected. In a judgment released Friday, Justice Lynn Smith — who made the ruling in the assisted-suicide case in June — agreed that the lawyers who brought the challenge should be awarded special costs because of the significance of the legal action; at https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/governments-ordered-to-pay-bc-lawyers-1-million-for-right-to-die-casework/article4894971/

59. per the British Columbia legislature's website profile of David Edy (June 5th 2019); Before he was elected, David was the Executive Director of the BC Civil Liberties Association; at https://web.archive.org/web/20190605004642/https://www.leg.bc.ca/learn-about-us/members/41st-Parliament/Eby-David

60. per a September 9th 2012 special message from BCCLA Executive Director, David Eby celebrating the Carter 2012 victory; A ; A special message from our Executive Director, David Eby: The B.C. Civil Liberties Association and the individual plaintiffs in the death with dignity lawsuit are represented by three of Canada’s top constitutional lawyers: Sheila Tucker of Davis LLP and Alison Latimer and Joseph Arvay, Q.C. of Arvay Finlay Barristers.; at https://bccla.org/2012/09/canadas-top-lawyers-fight-tirelessly-for-compassion-at-the-end-of-life/

61. per the Globe and Mail article David Lametti’s appointment as Justice Minister raises hope for less restrictive assisted-dying law (January 16 2019); at https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-david-lamettis-appointment-as-justice-minister-raises-hope-for-less/

62. per CBC News article Liberal MPs voted against Trudeau's recommendations on 2 bills last month (November 6, 2016); including David Lametti, parliamentary secretary for international trade — voted against the government's controversial, restrictive bill on medically assisted dying at third reading; at https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/liberal-backbenchers-trudeau-vote-against-party-line-1.3839047

63. per at 20-seconds of The Canadian Press video Woman planning assisted death on her fight to change the law (Nov 1, 2018) at 20-seconds in; I have cancer on the lining of my brain; at https://youtu.be/WVGabY3413o?t=20

64. per Halifax woman makes final plea for changes before medically assisted death (November 1st 2018); Cancer spread to my brain lining; I can’t predict when cancer will move into my brain matter; at https://www.halifaxtoday.ca/local-news/woman-planning-to-die-thursday-makes-final-plea-for-changes-in-facebook-post-1106814

65. per Darren Fisher when reading some of Audrey Parker's facebook post in the House of Commons on February 27th 2020 ; I can’t predict when cancer will move into my brain matter; video clip available at http://assistedlife.ca/DarrenFisher(HouseOfCommons)-ReadsAudreyParkerDidNotHaveCancerInBrain-Feb27th2020.mp4

66. per Voluntary Euthanasia — Implications for Organ Donation by LHSC's Ian Ball and Robert Sibbald; Although some patients may want to be sure that organ procurement won’t begin before they are declared dead, others may want not only a rapid, peaceful and painless death, but also the option of donating as many organs as possible and in the best condition possible; at https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1804276

67. per the National Post article 'Death by donation': Why some doctors say organs should be removed from some patients before they die (May 22, 2019); Under this scenario, people granted an assisted death would, with their full knowledge and consent, be transported to an operating room, put to sleep under general anaesthesia and their organs removed, including the heart and lungs. Death would follow removal of the beating heart. Under so-called euthanasia by organ donation, the act of organ donation itself — not a lethal injection or a doctor-prescribed, life-ending dose of barbiturates — would be the mode of death.; The dead donor rule isn’t a law, but more an ethical convention, said Ball. It’s being questioned more, especially in the advent of assisted dying.; at https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/euthanasia-by-organ-donation-should-we-allow-doctors-to-retrieve-peoples-organs-while-theyre-still-alive

68 - per at 3-minutes-46-seconds LHSC's Rob Sibbald's speech during the Canadian Critical Care Forum (CCCF) – Deceased Donation Scientific Symposium 2018; I mean, we're so invested in this dead donor rule. And I think that over time that rule has become so ingrained in the medical community that we hold it out as a foundational principle, not only a rule but a value. And I think just as likely there are people who question that value now. And I know there's perhaps not an appetite to go there but raising the question, is the dead donor rule even relevant? I think there are some who might want to say, I think back to other contentious debates in the past few years and then where we're going with medical assistance in dying. The best use of my organs if I'm going to receive a medically assisted death might be to not first kill me and then retrieve my organs, but to have my mode of death as we medically consider death now to be to retrieve my organs. And to meet your definition of the dead donor rule you have to consider me dead once you've first put me under and you have no intention of bringing me back. Well then fine, I can accept that if those are my values.; at https://youtu.be/m-GTCS-l6b8?t=226

69. per Potassium chloride for medical assistance in dying followed by organ donation by LHSC's Ian Ball and Rob Sibbald; at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12630-020-01603-w

70. per Ottawa Citizen article Medically assisted deaths prove a growing boon to organ donation in Ontario (January 6th 2020) reporting that Assisted Dying is becoming a new source of organs and tissues to eliminate wait list for organs.; This relatively new source of organs and tissues is significant in that Ontario’s waiting list for organs typically hovers around 1,600 without any great headway made to eliminate that number. While 90 per cent of Canadians reportedly support organ donation, only 34 per cent of Ontarians have registered online, and the growth rate in registered donors has declined for three consecutive years. Canada decriminalized medically assisted death in 2016, and Ontario, through Trillium, immediately moved to the forefront of organ and tissue donation through MAiD, becoming the first jurisdiction in the world to proactively reach out to those who had been approved for assisted death to discuss donation.; at https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/medically-assisted-deaths-prove-a-growing-boon-to-organ-donation-in-ontario/

71. per http://assistedlife.ca/ultraweb/slide7-WhyAssistedDeathIfReliefPossible-MAiD.jpg



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