They represented End Assisted Suicide, a coalition of patient advocacy groups that maintain assisted suicide is inherently discriminatory against the rights of people with disabilities. He pointed to Canada’s expanding MAID law, which will permit people with mental illness to request MAID unless Parliament acts before March 17, 2027. We don’t need to add one more in the form of assisted suicide — all in the claimed name of compassion.” “There has been an expansion of assisted suicide, and we’re seeing an increase in the number of deaths by assisted suicide each year,” she added. “Just from a public policy perspective,” she said, “regardless of one’s position on assisted suicide, it should be deeply concerning that assisted suicide continues to expand, and puts at risk those who are most vulnerable.”