Furthermore
everyone in this room is aware of a supposedly effective and «enforceable» Animal Welfare Act that
states a person commits an offence if either an act of his, or a failure of his to act, causes an animal to suffer; he knew, or ought reasonably to have known, that the act, or failure to act, would have that
effect or be likely to do so — or the suffering is unnecessary.
In a recent judgment, Justice Lynne Smith of the British Columbia Supreme Court identified grounds upon which to reopen the question of the constitutionality of the criminal prohibition against physician - assisted dying, claiming, in effect, that while the Supreme Court had at the time of the Rodriguez been correct in stating that a blanket prohibition on physician - assisted dying would be rationally connected to the goal of protecting the most vulnerable people in Canadian society, such a prohibition is overbroad (you don't need to deny everyone the right to physician - assisted suicide in order to protect society's most vulnerable persons) and grossly disproportionate in its effect
In a recent judgment, Justice Lynne Smith of the British Columbia Supreme Court identified grounds upon which to reopen the question of the constitutionality of the criminal prohibition against physician - assisted dying, claiming,
in effect, that while the Supreme Court had at the time of the Rodriguez been correct in stating that a blanket prohibition on physician - assisted dying would be rationally connected to the goal of protecting the most vulnerable people in Canadian society, such a prohibition is overbroad (you don't need to deny everyone the right to physician - assisted suicide in order to protect society's most vulnerable persons) and grossly disproportionate in its effect
in effect, that while the Supreme Court had at the time of the Rodriguez been correct
in stating that a blanket prohibition on physician - assisted dying would be rationally connected to the goal of protecting the most vulnerable people in Canadian society, such a prohibition is overbroad (you don't need to deny everyone the right to physician - assisted suicide in order to protect society's most vulnerable persons) and grossly disproportionate in its effect
in stating that a blanket prohibition on physician - assisted dying would be rationally connected to the goal of protecting the most vulnerable people
in Canadian society, such a prohibition is overbroad (you don't need to deny everyone the right to physician - assisted suicide in order to protect society's most vulnerable persons) and grossly disproportionate in its effect
in Canadian society, such a prohibition is overbroad (you don't need to deny
everyone the right to physician - assisted suicide
in order to protect society's most vulnerable persons) and grossly disproportionate in its effect
in order to protect society's most vulnerable persons) and grossly disproportionate
in its effect
in its
effects.