Episode 10 : Medical Assistance in Dying with Professor Jocelyn Downie

Is the right to life also the right to choose how we die? Professor Jocelyn Downie, a Member of the Order of Canada and leading scholar of Canadian health law, joins host Hugo Martin to trace the road from Rodriguez's narrow 1993 rejection of assisted dying to the Supreme Court's landmark 2015 decision in Carter v. Canada. They unpack the Charter arguments, the evidence that changed a precedent, and the legislative battles, Bill C-14, Truchon, Bill C-7, that have followed in Carter's wake.