Canada has indefinitely suspended plans to extend assisted dying eligibility to people whose only medical condition is a mental illness. The expansion had been due to come into force in March 2027.
Under the planned change, people with mental illness alone would have been able to seek assisted dying. The proposed eligibility would have represented an extension of Canada’s existing assisted-dying arrangements.
The plans will not proceed on the previously announced timetable. They have instead been paused indefinitely, meaning no new implementation date is provided in the supplied information.
The available details do not give a reason for the suspension or identify any official response to the decision. The latest known position is that eligibility based solely on mental illness remains excluded from the planned expansion while the pause remains in place.
