What the Commission reviews
One form
- The declaration completed by the professional who administered euthanasia
- Nothing else
End-of-Life Care Commission, 2024–2025 annual report.
Petition · Quebec Life Coalition
Who is protecting the vulnerable? 6,268 Quebecers were killed by euthanasia in a single year.
And the body meant to watch over euthanasia in Quebec never sees the medical file. Ask the Government of Quebec for a moratorium, an independent review and real palliative care everywhere.
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6,268Quebecers killed by euthanasia in a single year
1 in 13deaths in Quebec, the highest rate in the world
19deaths that broke the law in 2024–2025, 10 with no serious and incurable illness
0known sanctions for these breaches since 2015
The only witness consulted is the one who administered the death.
Result19 deaths that broke the law. No sanctions.
What it never sees
The medical record
- No access to the person's medical record
- No other witness consulted
- When the law is broken, no call to the police: only a note to the professional colleges
According to Living with Dignity, these cases do not appear to have led to any sanction since 2015.
How we got here
- June 2014Quebec passes the Act respecting end-of-life care"Medical aid in dying" is presented as a last resort, reserved for people at the end of life.
- June 2016Ottawa passes Bill C-14Euthanasia and assisted suicide become legal across Canada.
- March 2021Bill C-7 widens accessDeath no longer has to be "reasonably foreseeable."
- June 2023Quebec passes Bill 11Palliative care homes are now required to offer euthanasia to their patients.
- October 2024Advance requests come into forceA person can ask in advance to be euthanized later, once they are no longer able to consent.
- 2024–20257.9% of all deaths in QuebecQuebec has the highest rate of euthanasia in the world.
Petition text
Protect the Vulnerable Petition
To the Government of Quebec
WHEREAS, Quebec now has the highest rate of euthanasia in the world, reaching 7.9% of all deaths in the province in 2024–2025;
WHEREAS, Quebec's End-of-Life Commission evaluates compliance using only the declaration form completed by the professional who committed the euthanasia, and has no access to the person's medical record; and
WHEREAS, in 2024–2025 the Commission found 19 administrations of euthanasia non-compliant with the law, including 10 in which the person was not suffering from a serious and incurable illness, and such confirmed breaches do not appear to have led to any sanction since 2015.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the undersigned calls on the Government of Quebec to:
- declare a moratorium on euthanasia until palliative care is available everywhere in Quebec, and ensure that palliative care homes are never compelled to act against their founding principle of bringing life to the end of life by administering death instead;
- order an independent review of the oversight and enforcement of euthanasia in Quebec;
- give the Commission genuine investigative authority, including access to medical records, rather than reliance on provider self-declaration;
- account publicly for why confirmed breaches of the law have brought no consequences; and
- guarantee and fund timely access to palliative care in every region so that no Quebecer ever chooses death due to lack of care.
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- L Linda Parksville
- J Jane Montréal
- T Treva Whitecourt
- P Pauline
- A Angela Brampton
- M Mary Elaine
- M Marie-Anne Curran
- M Mary Bowmanville
- B ben Nelson
- K Ken Nanaimo
- A Angie Saskatoon
- V Virginia Medicine Hat
- M MaryJean Sydenham
- L Linda Montréal
- S Sylvia Plympton-Wyoming
- B Beth
- G George
- W Wieslawa
- T Theresa Saint Benedict
- B Brad Bashaw
Sources
- Commission sur les soins de fin de vie (End-of-Life Care Commission), Rapport annuel d'activités 2024-2025, Government of Quebec.
- Act respecting end-of-life care, CQLR, chapter S-32.0001 (passed in 2014, amended by Bill 11 in 2023).
- An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying), S.C. 2016, c. 3 (C-14); S.C. 2021, c. 2 (C-7).
- Living with Dignity (Vivre dans la Dignité), analyses of the Commission's annual reports.