Book contents
- International Perspectives on End-of-Life Law Reform
- Cambridge Bioethics and Law
- International Perspectives on End-of-Life Law Reform
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- About the Editors
- List of Contributors
- Table of Cases
- Table of Statutes, Bills and Regulations
- 1 End-of-Life Law Reform
- 2 The Path from Rodriguez to Bill C-14 and Beyond
- 3 The Extension of the Belgian Euthanasia Law to Minors in 2014
- 4 The Role of Scientific Evaluations of the Dutch Termination of Life on Request and Assisted Suicide (Review Procedure) Act
- 5 The Challenging Path to Voluntary Assisted Dying Law Reform in Australia
- 6 Should Assisted Dying Require the Consent of a High Court Judge?
- 7 Aid in Dying in the United States
- 8 The Medical Regulator as Law Reformer
- 9 Extrajudicial Resolution of Medical Futility Disputes
- 10 Challenging Mandatory Court Hearings for People in Vegetative and Minimally Conscious States
- 11 Withholding and Withdrawing Life-Prolonging Treatment and the Relevance of Patients’ Wishes
- 12 International Perspectives on Reforming End-of-Life Law
- Index
8 - The Medical Regulator as Law Reformer
Québec’s Act Respecting End-of-Life Care
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 December 2021
- International Perspectives on End-of-Life Law Reform
- Cambridge Bioethics and Law
- International Perspectives on End-of-Life Law Reform
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- About the Editors
- List of Contributors
- Table of Cases
- Table of Statutes, Bills and Regulations
- 1 End-of-Life Law Reform
- 2 The Path from Rodriguez to Bill C-14 and Beyond
- 3 The Extension of the Belgian Euthanasia Law to Minors in 2014
- 4 The Role of Scientific Evaluations of the Dutch Termination of Life on Request and Assisted Suicide (Review Procedure) Act
- 5 The Challenging Path to Voluntary Assisted Dying Law Reform in Australia
- 6 Should Assisted Dying Require the Consent of a High Court Judge?
- 7 Aid in Dying in the United States
- 8 The Medical Regulator as Law Reformer
- 9 Extrajudicial Resolution of Medical Futility Disputes
- 10 Challenging Mandatory Court Hearings for People in Vegetative and Minimally Conscious States
- 11 Withholding and Withdrawing Life-Prolonging Treatment and the Relevance of Patients’ Wishes
- 12 International Perspectives on Reforming End-of-Life Law
- Index
Summary
An Act Respecting End of Life Care came into force in the province of Québec, Canada on 10 December 2015. This new law aimed to ensure that all adults with decisional capacity in Québec had access to the full range of health care options at the end of their lives including for the first time, medical assistance in dying (euthanasia). This chapter describes how the province’s medical regulator, the Collège des Médecins du Québec (CMQ), laid the groundwork for the passage of this law. Although not necessarily setting out to play a role in law reform as such, the CMQ’s proposal to frame assisted dying as a therapeutic act enabled the legislator to introduce a bill which already had the support of the medical profession as well as a regulatory structure in place to guide practice. This allowed the regulator to be more than a stakeholder in a process of law reform but a driver of reform itself.
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- International Perspectives on End-of-Life Law ReformPolitics, Persuasion and Persistence, pp. 165 - 179Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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