# Canada to indefinitely extend MAID ban for people with mental illness

https://mins.news/en/video/90231

- CBC News, 2026-10-07 18:52 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIZwUzOWkrk

> Canada’s federal government plans to introduce legislation this fall to indefinitely extend the ban on medically assisted death for people whose only condition is a mental illness.

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