Canadian Supreme Court Rules Ban On Assisted Suicide Unconstitutional

BarbaraHudson writes with word that Canada's Supreme Court has issued a strong statement in defense of Canadians' right to choose assisted suicide: [A] judgment, which is unsigned to reflect the unanimous institutional weight of the court, says the current ban on assisted suicide infringes on all three of the life, liberty and security of person provisions in Section 7 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It does not limit physician-assisted death to those suffering a terminal illness. The court agreed with the trial judge "that a permissive regime with properly designed and administered safeguards was capable of protecting vulnerable people from abuse and error. While there are risks, to be sure, a carefully designed and managed system is capable of adequately addressing them." Parliament has one year to enact new legislation modifying the Criminal Code to conform to the judgment.

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Re:Slippery Slope

[ArcadeMan]

What's next? Legalization of marijuana?!!!

I sure hope not, for three reasons:

1. This shit really stinks, like burning old clothes which were stored in an attic for decades
2. People who are high usually listen to loud music, and it's annoying
3. We can only produce a limited quantity of snacks

Small business owners will oppose this in USA

[140Mandak262Jamuna]

The small business owner is the job creator, one who takes enormous risk to put up some capital in the hopes of making insane amount of profits. There are people willing to do the work for 2$ an hour and bowl of refried beans, which is the price for labor set by Free Markets. But the onerous, oppressive and burdensome regulations thought up by the Federal bureaucrats are making them pay 7.50$ an hour several times what the Free market dictates. Further things like overtime pay, paid to wash hands after using restrooms, paid time to use restroom, costs like gloves and masks to handle chemicals....

Now this, if these people decide this life is not worth living and decide to kick the bucket legally, without any consequence, what would happen to their businesses? Who would create jobs? Nothing should put the well being and motivation of the small business owner to risk. The access to steady supply of cheap labor and over supply of laborers should be maintained by the government at all costs. Allowing legal suicides would imperil the most sacrosanct class of Americans, the small business owner.