C-390An Act to amend the Criminal Code (provincial medical assistance in dying framework)

What it does

• Allows medical practitioners and nurse practitioners to provide medical assistance in dying under section 241.2 or an applicable provincial framework without committing culpable homicide or an offence.
• Extends the same protection to people who help the practitioner, pharmacists who dispense the prescribed substance, and people who help a patient self-administer it at that person’s explicit request.
• Adds a rule that a person may receive medical assistance in dying if they meet the federal criteria or a provincial framework that lets someone with an illness likely to remove consent capacity make an advance request.
• Updates the Criminal Code so a practitioner who knowingly fails to follow the required safeguards, including those in an applicable provincial framework, can be guilty of an offence.
• Amends another offence rule so the same medical assistance in dying acts are exempt when done under section 241.2 or an applicable provincial framework.