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December 2014 – Carter v. Canada: Assisted Suicide

November 29, 2014

This fall the Supreme Court of Canada heard Carter v. Canada, a constitutional challenge to the assisted suicide provisions in the Criminal Code. Hear an excerpt from Joseph Arvay's address to the Supreme Court of Canada, a discussion about the case with the BC Civil Liberties Association's Grace Pastine, and hear from the case's namesake, Lee Carter, about how the criminal prohibition on assisted suicide affected her and her mother.