Euthanasia in Canada: Progress or Runaway Train? Public Q&A Session

Join us for a public Q&A session with a panel of practitioners from a range of fields (palliative care, priestly ministry, disability advocacy in Indigenous communities), each of which is affected by Canada's MAID legislation. This event serves as a follow-up to our February 2 public lecture, "Euthanasia in Canada: Progress or Runaway Train?" The session will begin with opening remarks from each of the panelists. Once the panelists have been introduced, audience members will be able to submit their questions to the event moderators.

Panelists:

(1) Dr. Margaret Cottle is a Palliative Care physician in greater Vancouver, BC, working in Home Hospice programs.  She is a clinical assistant professor at the University of BC, in the Division of Palliative Care in the Faculty of Medicine.  Dr. Cottle speaks internationally about end-of-life issues and palliative care and addressed members of the Canadian Parliament in 2006 and 2017. She completed her training in Dignity Therapy with Dr. Harvey Max Chochinov in 2012 and has a special interest and expertise in dignity conserving care.

(2) The Rev. Dr. Andrew P. W. Bennett is Program Director of Faith Communities at Cardus. He is an ordained deacon in the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church in the Eparchy (Diocese) of Toronto and Eastern Canada.

(3) Neil Belanger is Chief Executive Officer of Indigenous Disability Canada (IDC) and the Executive Director of the British Columbia Aboriginal Network on Disability Society (BCANDS).

(4) Isabel Grant is Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at UBC's Peter A. Allard School of Law. Her main research interests lie in the areas of criminal law—particularly the law and policy issues surrounding violence against women, sexual assault, homicide, and HIV non- disclosure. She has also worked with advocacy groups representing women and people with disabilities on more than 20 interventions in the Supreme Court of Canada and other appellate courts.