{
  "abstract": "Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) regime was introduced in 2016 and expanded in 2021. Within its framework, euthanasia accounts for almost all cases. MAiD operates through two legal pathways: Track 1, for those whose ‘natural death is reasonably foreseeable’ (RFND), and Track 2, for persons with chronic disabilities whose deaths are not reasonably foreseeable, whereas MAiD for sole reasons of mental illness remains suspended by federal legislation until 2027.1",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Family Medicine, Western University Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, London, Ontario, Canada"
      ],
      "name": "Ramona Coelho"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Research affiliate, Lakehead University Centre for Health Care Ethics, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada"
      ],
      "name": "David Shannon"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "University of Toronto Faculty of Law, Toronto, Ontario, Canada",
        "University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada"
      ],
      "name": "Trudo Lemmens"
    }
  ],
  "title": "Safeguard failures in Canada’s MAiD system",
  "uid": "a92a0543-1683-5eed-9227-abfc9bc52698"
}