TORONTO, December 4, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – An Ontario Conservative MP has proposed a bill that would mandate the province to focus on improving access to hospice palliative care. The bill comes as euthanasia and assisted suicide rates continue to climb steeply across Canada.
Euthanasia opponents are lauding Ontario Conservative MPP Sam Oosterhoff for his private member’s bill that mandates a provincial palliative care strategy.
And they are urging Ontarians to lobby MPPs to support the legislation.
Oosterhoff tabled Bill 182, or the Compassionate Care Act, last week.
It gives the Liberal government a year to “develop a provincial framework designed to support improved access to hospice palliative care.”
The bill specifies that the provincial strategy encompasses hospice palliative care provided “through hospitals, home care, long-term care homes and hospices.”
Oosterhoff has set up a website ontariopalliativecare.ca that explains his legislation and documents the need for palliative care.
“Ontario needs 1,300 hospice and palliative care beds. We currently have only 341 of these beds available in the entire province,” the website states.
Ontarians can also use the website to urge MPPs to support Bill 182, which is scheduled for second reading debate December 14, the last day
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