Prime Minister Mark Carney makes his way to question period on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on May 5, 2026. The Canadian Press/Spencer Colby
Prime Minister Mark Carney says he won’t take a position yet on whether people with only a mental illness should be able to access assisted dying.
A parliamentary committee of senators and MPs is studying whether the country is ready to expand medical assistance in dying, or MAID, to people whose sole underlying condition is a mental illness.
