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OPQ ID: 451-1095
Session: 451
Question number: Q-1095
Sessional paper: 8555-451-1095
Title: medical assistance in dying, MAiD, Response from June 8, 2026 for
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Topic: public health
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Agencies: HC
Date asked: 2026-04-21
Date tabled: 2026-06-08
Submitted by: Tamara Jansen (Cloverdale—Langley
Reply by: the Minister of Health
Responded by: Maggie Chi
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With regard to Track 2 medical assistance in dying provisions under section 241.2(3) of the Criminal Code since the passage of Bill C-7 on March 17, 2021: (a) how many Track 2 medical assistance in dying provisions occurred in each calendar year from 2021 to 2024, broken down by province and territory;
(b) what categories of underlying medical condition are recorded in the federal medical assistance in dying monitoring data for Track 2 provisions;
(c) for each category identified in (b), how many Track 2 medical assistance in dying provisions occurred from 2021 to 2024, broken down by year and by province or territory;
(d) of the Track 2 medical assistance in dying recipients from 2021 to 2024 who self-identified as having a disability, how many were women, broken down by year and by province or territory;
(e) for each year from 2021 to 2024, how many
Track 2 medical assistance in dying requests were assessed as ineligible, broken down by province or territory and by reason for ineligibility, including, if tracked, cases in which the irremediability criterion was found not to have been met; and (f) has the government, or any federally-funded body, conducted any audit, review, evaluation, or other assessment of whether the irremediability criterion is being applied consistently in Track 2 cases, including whether treatment and support options have been adequately considered before a finding of irremediability is made, and, if so, what are the dates and titles of those documents and what were the findings or conclusions of those documents?
Response
This response was tabled in the House of Commons on June 8, 2026, as Sessional Paper 8555-451-1095.
Order/Address of the House of Commons
Question number
Q-1095
Asked by
Tamara Jansen (Cloverdale—Langley
City)
Date asked
April 21, 2026
Tabled on
June 8, 2026
Sessional Paper
8555-451-1095
House of Commons
Health Canada
Reply by: the Minister of Health
Name of Signatory: Maggie Chi
Reply
Health Canada
(a) how many Track 2 medical assistance in dying provisions occurred in each calendar year from 2021 to 2024, broken down by province and territory?
Data on Track 2 medical assistance in dying provisions is available in the Fifth Annual Report on Medical Assistance in
Dying ─ Figure 2.2a.
Provincial and territorial percentage breakdowns are available only for 2023 and 2024.
Specific numbers are not available for specific jurisdictions and demographics to protect individual privacy for instances where case numbers are too low.
Note for this response and subsequent responses that amendments to the Federal Regulations for the Monitoring of
Medical Assistance in Dying , which aligned data collection on medical assistance in dying with the legislative amendments introduced through former Bill C-7, only came into effect on January 1, 2023.
Consequently, the information on Track 2 medical assistance in dying provisions collected prior to that date may be incomplete as practitioners were not required to report on data elements associated with the legislative changes introduced in 2021.
(b) what categories of underlying medical condition are recorded in the federal medical assistance in dying monitoring data for Track 2 provisions?
For each medical assistance in dying request, practitioners must report the serious and incurable illness, disease, disability, or state of decline causing the individual’s suffering.
Individuals often experience multiple conditions, and practitioners may report more than one underlying medical condition.
The reporting categories are: cancer, neurological conditions, respiratory diseases, cardiovascular conditions, organ failure, and “other” conditions.
From 2021 to 2024, the most common medical conditions for Track 2 provisions were neurological followed by “other” conditions (a category that included, for example, diabetes, frailty, autoimmune conditions, chronic pain,
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joint, bone and muscle issues, hearing and visual issues and various internal diseases).
Information on mental disorders was also included in the “other” category when it was documented as a secondary condition.
(c) for each category identified in (b), how many Track 2 medical assistance in dying provisions occurred from 2021 to 2024, broken down by year and by province or territory?
The underlying medical conditions reported for Track 2 provisions at a national level have been presented in the Annual
Report on Medical Assistance in Dying for the year 2021 (Third Annual Report ─ Chart 4.5), 2022 (Fourth Annual Report ─
Chart 4.5A), 2023 (Fifth Annual Report ─ Section 3.1) and 2024 (Sixth Annual Report ─ Section 3.1).
Specific numbers are not available for specific jurisdictions and demographics to protect individual privacy for instances where case numbers are too low.
(d) of the Track 2 medical assistance in dying recipients from 2021 to
2024 who self-identified as having a disability, how many were women, broken down by year and by province or territory?
Under the federal Monitoring Regime for Medical Assistance in Dying, the collection of data on self-reported disability was initiated following the coming into force of the amended Regulations for the Monitoring of Medical Assistance in Dying on
January 1, 2023; accordingly, such information is not available for preceding years.
Among Track 2 recipients, where data was collected, 115 women (54.8%) in 2023 (Fifth Annual Report ─ Table 4.4a) and
234 women (55.6%) in 2024 (Sixth Annual Report ─ Table 4.4b) self-identified as having a disability.
Specific numbers are not available for specific jurisdictions and demographics to protect individual privacy for instances where case numbers are too low.
(e) for each year from 2021 to 2024, how many Track 2 medical assistance in dying requests were assessed as ineligible, broken down by province or territory and by reason for ineligibility, including, if tracked, cases in which the irremediability criterion was found not to have been met?
The number of Track 2 requests for medical assistance in dying assessed as ineligible, where data was collected, were 204 in 2022; 246 in 2023; and 321 individuals in 2024.
A distinction between the reasons for ineligibility across the two tracks is provided only for 2024 data (Sixth Annual
Report ─ Table 2.3a).
(f) has the government, or any federally-funded body, conducted any audit, review, evaluation, or other assessment of whether the irremediability criterion is being applied consistently in Track 2 cases, including whether treatment and support options have been adequately considered before a finding of irremediability is made, and, if so, what are the dates and titles of those documents and what were the findings or conclusions of those documents?
As Medical Assistance in Dying is delivered by the provinces and territories, which are responsible for gathering and maintaining related data, the federal government has not conducted any such audit, review, evaluation or other assessment.