"It is important that legislation addressing medically assisted dying is clear and includes necessary safeguards. I do not support expanding physician assisted suicide to minors or people who are unable to truly consent," writes Poilievre.
Say you don't even know what consent means without saying you don't know. Yet another dumb ass politician who has no idea what the words" mentally ill" truly entail. They've clearly been shielded from some grim horrors the world has to offer.
As if terminally ill children don't exist, or those with health problems that make them miserable, as if there aren't mentally ill people who have been suffering longer than this chump has even been alive and get paternalised by strangers and told they don't have capacity for decision making. When those teenagers reach adulthood and are still suffering from intractable pain, they will continually be told they're too immature to make a decision. Look at the outcry over of the 23 year old who accessed euthanasia in Belgium recently. She had been hurting for years and was on 11 drugs at once, but somehow hope must have been on the horizon when she'd applied multiple times already and got denied due to age.
It's kind of funny how people like this don't believe the so called mentally ill can consent to bodily autonomy, yet expect them to make various life decisions daily on their own, and often punish people for the "wrong" choices like being forced into low wage jobs, drinking or smoking, showing emotions, being honest about their struggles especially if things don't improve, yet claim one shouldn't have the right to exercise the ultimate authority over their body and terminate life.