{"id":639259,"date":"2026-04-30T20:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T20:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/639259\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T20:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T20:01:09","slug":"archbishop-of-toronto-calls-on-carney-to-stop-extension-of-maid-for-mental-illness-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/639259\/","title":{"rendered":"Archbishop of Toronto calls on Carney to stop extension of MAID for mental illness | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1777579269_499_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A patient&#8217;s hand is held at a hospital in Minneapolis on Monday, May 3, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS-David Joles-Star Tribune via AP<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tApr 30, 2026 | 11:39 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2014 The Archbishop of Toronto has written a letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney appealing to his Catholic faith and urging him to \u201cchoose life and not death\u201d when it comes to assisted dying.<\/p>\n<p>The letter, dated April 20, expresses support for a private member\u2019s bill that would prevent access to medical assistance in dying from being extended to people whose sole underlying medical condition is a mental illness.<\/p>\n<p>That change is set to take effect next March and a parliamentary committee is now studying whether Canada is ready for that to happen.<\/p>\n<p>Archbishop Frank Leo urged the prime minister to allow Liberal members of Parliament to vote freely on the private member\u2019s bill to restrict MAID.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A patient&#8217;s hand is held at a hospital in Minneapolis on Monday, May 3, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS-David&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82,3302],"class_list":["post-639259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}