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e-5340 (Social affairs and equality)

E-petition
Initiated by avi karp from PIERREFONDS, Quebec

Original language of petition: English

Petition to the Government of Canada

Whereas:
  • The courts forced the government to legislate Medical Assistance in Dying;
  • MAiD is a valid procedure for those who are suffering and in a state of irreversible pain;
  • MAiD is a way of providing a dignified death;
  • The Canada Disability Benefit does little to address the seriousness about the poverty that disabled people live under;
  • During COVID-19 the government recognized that $2000 a month was the bare minimum needed to survive; and
  • The Canadian government is providing a dignified way of death, but not life.
We, the undersigned, citizens and residents of Canada, call upon the Minister of Diversity, Inclusion and Persons with Disabilities to prioritize being disabled with a dignified life by immediately instituting a Canada Disability Benefit that would allow disabled people to live with dignity before they have a dignified death. We are calling on the minister to raise the Canada Disability Benefit to what the government acknowledged was "the bare minimum" needed to survive: $2000 a month.
Open for signature
January 29, 2025, at 11:57 a.m. (EDT)
Closed for signature
March 30, 2025, at 11:57 a.m. (EDT)
Photo - Alexandre Boulerice
Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie
New Democratic Party Caucus
Quebec