Euthanasia Supporters Attempt To Win Some Time

Voting on C-384 has been postponed to December 2nd:

The private members bill, proposed by Member of Parliament Francine Lalonde (BQ-La Pointe-de-l'Île), received its first of two hours of debate on October 2nd. The second hour was originally scheduled for November 16th, with a vote to follow shortly after.

Lalonde moved the date of the second debate to November 19th a few days ago by trading with another Bloc MP. She's now traded again, delaying the debate until December 1st at 5:30 p.m., with a vote the next day.

"I think she's trying to create support for her bill," said Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. "And I think the only way she can create it is by giving her some time, but she doesn't have time."

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Hopefully she doesn't. But apparently, the plan is to seek support from those MPs that don't support euthanasia, but that are ok with assisted suicide. They can be promised that if they let C-384 pass the second reading, the committee will then rewrite the bill to make it appear less controversial (without such terms as "appearing to be lucid".) The amended bill would then
So that it would look like a reasonable compromise for the moderates and a "foot in the door" - for the euthanasia supporters. That seems to be the plan but hopefully, even with the moderates on board, C-384 doesn't get enough support to pass the third reading.

With the change in date, disability rights advocate Steven Passmore has moved his protest to December 1st from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition is urging people to join Passmore on Parliament Hill at that time.

Hopefully, our MPs take that protest in consideration as they vote on C-384.