Canadian senators have started debate on proposed legislation to give some people whose death is not “reasonably foreseeable” access to medical assistance in dying (MAID). The highly controversial Bill C-7, sponsored in the Senate by Sen. Chantal Petitclerc of the Independent Senators Group, would expand the number of people who can access MAID — an amendment opposed by many Conservative MPs in the House of Commons last week. The bill attempts to bring the federal law into compliance with a September 2019 Quebec Superior Court ruling by Justice Christine Baudouin, who found it unconstitutional to only allow MAID for people near death, as prescribed in the current law, Bill C-14.