At 4pm EST, the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science & Technology will hear testimony related to Bill C-22, including comments from our EVP @KristaCarrNB. #cdnpoli

We'll be live tweeting throughout the committee meeting.

Tune in here: senparlvu.parl.gc.ca/Harmony/en/Pow… @KristaCarrNB Session is starting now - first up, introductions from the committee members and an overview of the #accessibility features adopted by committee.

Panel 1 opens with remarks from @CQualtro.

Two years ago last Friday, Bill C-7 became law. To mark the day, we sent a letter to the Minister of Health, Jean-Yves Duclos.

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Please consider doing the same. More threaded below. Minister Duclos is responsible for responding to the recommendations of the Special Joint Committee on MAiD.

We're tweeting from the Special Joint Committee on #MAiD this morning.

The first panel is Catherine Frazee, Isabel Grant, and Megan Linton.

Here's the link:
parlvu.parl.gc.ca/Harmony/en/Pow… We're here in Ottawa in person, so the tweets might be a bit higher level today.

"We spend every waking hour throwing out lifelines to save our disabled kin... bearing witness to the injusticew that afflict them... Our people are dying." - Catherine Frazee

We're tweeting from tonight's Special Joint Committee on #MAiD (#AMAD) meeting. The theme is the "protection" of persons with disabilities.

Tonight, we expect to hear from @DrHeid, @ProfTimSUBC, and Dave Shannon amongst others.

Here's the link: parlvu.parl.gc.ca/Harmony/en/Pow… We're a bit cynical about the objective of protecting people with disabilities under a law which provides MAiD on the basis of disability to people who are not otherwise dying.

The Special Joint Committee on MAiD (#AMAD) is discussing MAiD for Mature Minors.

Elizabeth Sheehy starts out strong "I add my voice to the clear and unequivocal opposition expressed unanimously by disability rights groups across this country to yet another extension of MAiD". Here's the link to meeting: parlvu.parl.gc.ca/Harmony/en/Pow…

"I testified before the Senate committee that studied Bill C-7 to oppose extending MAiD to people with disabilities who are not dying. We lost that fight. And so the bonfire started, the wood was laid and the match was lit."

Up now is Federation member @lasqd - Amélie Duranleau & @samuelragot presenting views from the Quebec Intellectual Disability Society/ Societe Quebecoise de la Deficience Intellectuelle. "First, we must emphasize that we are very much in favour of the swift passing of Bill C-22. C-22 could play a decisive role in helping lift persons with disabilities out of poverty across the country. In that sense, it is a once-in-a-generation opportunity."

We're tweeting from the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) #AMAD this evening. It isn't yet clear what the theme will be - but the witnesses are all medical doctors and professors.

Here's the link: parlvu.parl.gc.ca/Harmony/en/Pow… The first presenter is Chantal Perrot, a MAiD provider and director of Dying with Dignity.

Dr. Perrot is making a case for more widespread use of advanced requests (aha! the theme must be advanced requests). "Audrey's amendment did not go far enough for most people."