Trudo Lemmens

Dr. Trudo Lemmens is professor and Scholl Chair in Health Law and Policy in the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. He was an expert witness for the Attorney General of Canada in the Truchon, Gladu and Lamb cases. He was a member of the Council of Canadian Academies Expert Panel on Medical Assistance in Dying.

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How Bill C-7 will sacrifice the medical profession’s Standard of Care

As Parliament discusses Bill C-7’s expansion of the Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) Act, one issue has been conspicuously absent from public debate, even though it has major implications for medicine and for patients: the …

Il faut repenser le nouveau projet de loi sur l’aide médicale à mourir

Afin de respecter l’échéancier imposé par la Cour supérieure du Québec dans son jugement de la cause Truchon et Gladu, le gouvernement fédéral tentera de forcer le Parlement à adopter dans les prochaines semaines son …

Is pharmaceutical transparency in Canada all just talk?

Health Canada has been talking about improving the transparency of information around pharmaceutical drugs for years. The drug regulator has failed to back up that talk with genuine commitment and action. Meanwhile, the lack of transparency …

Le protocole québécois de triage clinique donne lieu à la discrimination

(Cet article a été traduit en anglais.) À la suite de critiques virulentes du protocole de triage en soins intensifs du ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux du Québec (MSSS), plus récemment encore par …

Quebec’s clinical triage protocol opens door to discrimination

(This article has been translated from French.) Following serious public criticism, most recently by the Liberal MNA Jennifer Maccarone, of the intensive care triage protocol developed under the auspices of Quebec’s Ministry of Health and Social …