Dr. Heidi Janz:

I work in an ethics centre at a university. When medical assistance in dying, MAID, was first legalised in Canada, a number of my colleagues raised alarm bells as this marked a fundamental shift in the relationship between doctors and patients. In my brief, which I submitted, I talk about the fact that MAID is being introduced into a medical system that is already plagued by systematic ableism, and for me there is a great ethical conflict in doctors providing MAID. The only possible solution is to make proficient a group of doctors who are allowed to abstain so that disabled people know they have safe doctors.