Urgent request that you participate: National Consultation regarding Ontario MAiD policy ending April 30th 2021

Hello friends:

I have two important and urgent requests for you and your organizations. Even the same short letter submitted for both tasks would be helpful.

1) Please participate in CPSO consultation on MAiD policies.

2) Send a similar letter to the MOH and MPPS in Ontario asking for legislation to protect conscience and that they regulate MAiD so that no physician can raise MAiD as a treatment option (excel attached for emails of MPPs).

Context:
1: The CPSO (Ontario college of physicians) is calling for submissions on their effective referral policy for MAiD (human rights policy) and for MAiD policy in general( they mandate falsifying death certificates to not disclose MAiD and other problematic policies and their survey suggests they plan to make it a positive obligation to RAISE MAiD as a treatment option for those who qualify).

You can write one short submission, put it in pdf and email both their policy consultations to weigh in. I found this easier than uploading to their online portals.

Emails for CPSO consultations if you send them PDFs:
maid@cpso.on.ca
humanrights@cpso.on.ca

Some points if helpful:

We are deeply concerned that Bill C-7 will place persons at risk for wrongful deaths. Patients should have their suffering addressed by good medicine and support.

Medically administered death for life-suffering instead of resources and medical care to live is unconscionable.

The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario currently requires physicians to create a pathway for MAiD.

To have a policy that forces some health care professionals to violate their conscience is discriminatory against members of the profession who do not believe that death is a good treatment option for people with disabilities.

Furthermore, patients actually receive better care when their doctors are free to act with integrity.  A patient should know that they are being offered what the doctor truly believes to be appropriate and best clinical care, not what the doctors have been coerced into doing via threat of disciplinary action.

Emails for PDF submissions:
maid@cpso.on.ca,
humanrights@cpso.on.ca

2: Please see the letters sent to the MOH (all MPPS and Minister of Health) and I’ve also attached the CPSO consultation submission.
Please do not circulate the MOH letter for now.
THE CPSO letter will be posted online shortly so feel free!