A parliamentary committee is expected to recommend against extending eligibility for medical assistance in dying to people with a mental illness in a report to the House of Commons set to be tabled Wednesday.
Individuals with a mental illness as their sole underlying condition have so far been excluded from medical assistance in dying. That exclusion is set to end next March unless Parliament intervenes with legislation.
A committee of MPs and senators held hearings this spring to determine whether the country is prepared for that exclusion to end.