Euthanasia in Canada C-14. This was the first instance of a government backbencher voting against their party. Ouellette felt that large scale changes to social norms like assisted dying should move very slowly because the impacts will be felt differently across Canada and societies. "While the people of Toronto might want this, the impact in the North will be different. We are not islands unto ourselves." Euthanasia in Canada Euthanasia in Canada in its legal voluntary form is called medically assisted dying and became legal along with assisted suicide as of June 2016 to end the suffering of terminally ill adults. Bill C-14,
Legality of euthanasia a dignified death. Parliament has assigned ethics panels over the years that have advised against legalisation each time however it is still not specifically outlawed and a study published in 2003 showed 41% of deaths under medical supervision involved doctors taking "end-of-life" decisions to help ease their patients' suffering before death (about 1% of which were via prescription drugs). Active euthanasia is not legal in Finland. Passive euthanasia, however, is legal. In July 2013, French President François Hollande stated his personal support for decriminalisation of voluntary euthanasia in France, which had been one of his presidential campaign promises ("introduction of