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10 McGill J.L. & Health S69 (2016-2017)
A Missed Opportunity: Affirming the Section 15 Equality Argument against Physician-Assisted Death

handle is hein.journals/mcghealp10 and id is 69 raw text is: McGLL JOURNAL OF LAW AND HEALTH ~ REVUE DE DROIT ET SANTE DE MCGILL A MISSED OPPORTUNITY: AFFIRMING THE SECTION 15 EQUALITY ARGUMENT AGAINST PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED DEATH Maneesha Deckha * In the 2012 decision of Carter v Canada (AG) the British Columbia Supreme Court found that Section 15 equality rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Free- doms were infringed by the blanket prohibi- tion against assisted death in the Criminal Code. Madam Justice Lynn Smith's appli- cation of the substantive equality model is a critical factor in the judgment, enabling a responsive and nuanced understanding of disability, the systemic disadvantages that people with disabilities experience, and the disability rights responses to physician-as- sisted death. Her equality analysis also ex- hibits a respect for the agency of those in vulnerable positions because of their physic- al health. These dimensions lead to a sophis- ticated judicial treatment of the disability rights debate on physician-assisted death in the Section 15 portion of the trial decision. The views of disability scholars feature sig- nificantly in this portion of the decision and the diverse perspectives within the disability community about physician-assisted death are synthesized and explored. The Section En 2012, dans l'arret Carter v Canada (PG), la Cour supreme de la Colombie-Britan- nique a statud que l'interdiction gdndrale de l'aide mdicale a mourir par le Code crimi- nel violait le droit au traitement 6gal garanti par larticle 15 de la Charte canadienne des droits et libertis. L'application du cadre jur- idique de l'6galit6 rdelle par la juge Lynn Smith est un facteur d6terminant de cet ar- ret et permet une comprehension nuancde et r6ceptive du handicap, des d6savantages sys- timiques que les personnes avec un handi- cap rencontrent et des rdponses possibles a l'aide mdicale a mourir d'un point de vue du droit des personnes avec un handicap. Son analyse fondde sur larticle 15 illustre 6galement un respect pour la capacit6 des personnes en situation de vulndrabilit6 due a leur sante physique. Ces dimensions sup- portent un traitement juridique sophistiqud du d6bat sur les droits des personnes avec un handicap et sur l'aide mdicale a mourir, lequel est abord6 dans la d6cision de pre- mi&re instance. C'est effectivement dans les portions d6dides a l'analyse fondde sur * BA (McGill), LLB (Toronto), LLM (Columbia); Professor and Lansdowne Chair, Faculty of Law, University of Victoria. The author would like to thank the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for research support. 0 Maneesha Deckha 2016 Citation: Maneesha Deckha, A Missed Opportunity: Affirming the Section 15 Equality Argument against Physician-Assisted Death (2016) 10:1 McGill JL & Health S69. Rf6rence : Maneesha Deckha, << A Missed Opportunity: Affirming the Section 15 Equality Argument against Physician-Assisted Death >> (2016) 10 : 1 RD & sant6 McGill S69.

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