We won't know what the federal legislation looks like until it is passed. We anticipate that it will be passed on June 6, which means we will have to be in a position to facilitate physician-assisted dying here in the Northwest Territories. Now that we have pulled together some information from stakeholders across Northwest Territories, we have the expert panel's report, we also have the report that was prepared for the federal government, and we also know that a number of the different provincial colleges of physicians are doing a significant amount of work on this. We are going to pull all that information together and, shortly, we are going to be pulling together a steering committee of key stakeholders here in the Northwest Territories that are going to help advise what our interim measures should be for June 6. We anticipate that there is going to be some legislative requirements here in the Northwest Territories to help facilitate this in the long term, but we won't know what those are until we actually see the federal legislation. Our first step here is to put the steering committee together, get some interim measures that we can put in place so that we can facilitate respectful, choice-based, physician-assisted dying here in the Northwest Territories on June 6, and then move forward through the legislative process once we know what the federal legislation looks like.
Glen Abernethy on Question 81-18(2): Physician-Assisted Dying
In the Legislative Assembly on February 29th, 2016. See this statement in context.
Question 81-18(2): Physician-Assisted Dying
Oral Questions
February 28th, 2016
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