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Mona Gupta is forging the future of MAID
Psychiatrist, University of Montreal
If Canada’s health-care system is experiencing a crisis of morale, the issue of medical assistance in dying, or MAID, seems to hinge on a crisis of conscience. Gupta, a nationally recognized voice in the field of bioethics, was chosen last year to chair an expert panel convened by the Liberal government to provide recommendations on how to safely extend MAID to Canadians whose sole medical condition is mental illness. (Some critics have argued that medically assisted death could become an inadvertent “cure” for things like poverty and homelessness.) In the face of the government tabling legislation to push back MAID’s expansion to March of 2024, Gupta has represented a rare (and uniquely qualified) voice of dissent against the delay, standing up for Canadians’ right to die on their own terms and timelines.