Check this page for curated updates on relevant, “hear and know” mental health issues, policies, news and developments.

November 2023

The Special Joint Parliamentary Committee reviewing readiness for providing MAID for sole mental illness conditions held hearings November 2023, its report and recommendations are anticipated to be released January 2024.

Watch the testimony from November 28, 2023, 19:30-20:30, which featured Dr. K. Sonu Gaind discussing lack of readiness/safeguards regarding MAID for mental illness. The session and Q&A explored an important range of relevant topics and is well worth watching (videos below split into Part I and Part II).

Part II: Q&A on MAID and mental illness

You can view testimony of all the witnesses at the parliamentary committee website here, and are encouraged in particular to watch for yourself what your colleague psychiatrists are saying on these complex issues:

Link to AMAD-MAID Parliamentary Committee site

Selected Briefs

Below is a list of Briefs that authors have provided permission for SocPsych to post here (note that SocPsych’s own Brief is available on this page):

(Check back for additional briefs as they get posted. If you wish to have your Brief considered for posting, please email us; and note it may take a day or two for Briefs to be posted)

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K.S.Gaind and Trudo Lemmens on behalf of Expert Advisory Group on MAID

Scott Kim brief

Christopher Lyon brief

François Primeau brief

K. S. Gaind brief

Sephora Tang brief

Laila Jamal brief

Keith Mahar brief

Richard Hugues brief

Anton Scamvougeras brief