Ms. Bélanger succeeds Health Minister Christian Dubé, who last June failed to pass Bill 38, which would allow people with Alzheimer’s, for example, to make a pre-application.

The minister will present a new bill on medical euthanasiathe minister’s press secretary, Sarah Bigras, told The Canadian Press on Monday.

Ms Bigras has not specified whether this will happen at the beginning of the next parliamentary session in February or what changes will be made.

Sure, until then Holiday season, Ms. Bélanger will meet with the different parties in the National Assembly, said Ms. Bigras. The minister wants work together and talk to them about it.

” This is an important issue for Quebec society and we want to include all political parties in this discussion. »

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Much work has already been done on the subject of expansionMA.

The cross-party parliamentary commission, which had dealt intensively with this topic, presented its report in December 2021.

It had held hearings for 14 days and listened to around a hundred stakeholders and experts, not counting the approximately 80 briefs received and the 3,000 members of the public who took part in the online consultation.

Last June, several people had regrets Failure of Bill 38.

let’s remember Mr Dubé had waited until the end of the spring session to table it. He urgently needed to withdraw a determination on severe neuromotor disabilities.

Due to lack of time, the deputies had not been able to pass this bill.

The ones we look at mother medical help when dying, former PQ employee Véronique Hivon was very moved and did not hide her great disappointment.

We all wish we could have passed this law wholeheartedly.she commented at a press conference.

Meanwhile, the Québec Association for the Right to Die with Dignity (AQDMD) had urged lawmakers to roll up their sleeves and get back to work in the fall after the elections.

It doesn’t have to be a yearsaid the spokeswomanAQDMDSandra Demontigny, who herself suffers from an early and hereditary form of Alzheimer’s.