Wed Mar 8, 2023 – 8:41 pm EST
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) leader Pierre Poilievre says he will support a bill that would stop the Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s “reckless” expansion of the nation’s euthanasia laws to those with mental illness.
“Conservatives are calling for Justin Trudeau and his Liberal government to protect vulnerable Canadians and immediately end their expansion of medically assisted death to those with mental illness,” the CPC said in a press release Monday.
“The Liberal government continues to ignore the growing number of experts who say that MAiD expansion is risking the lives of the most vulnerable Canadians.”
At a press conference Monday, Poilievre highlighted a new bill introduced by MP Ed Fast a few weeks back that would reverse the expansion of Canada’s medical assistance in dying (MAiD) laws.
Poilievre, who is pro-abortion, said he would support Bill C-314 as it would repeal the expansion of Canada’s euthanasia laws to those suffering solely from mental illness.
The bill – officially known as Bill C-314, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying) – was introduced to the House of Commons on February 10.
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