Canada has indefinitely suspended plans to expand its medically assisted dying programme (MAID) to individuals whose sole medical condition is mental illness. The decision halts a proposed expansion that would have allowed people suffering only from mental illness to seek assisted death. The suspension was announced without a specified timeline for when or if the expansion might be reconsidered. The move comes amid ongoing debate over the scope and safeguards of Canada's assisted dying laws.
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