Tamara Jansen

So here's what happened in Parliament this week.

Conservative MP Tamara Jansen introduced Bill C-218.

Its proposal was to permanently prevent medical assistance in dying from becoming available when a mental illness is the sole underlying medical condition.

We just heard Andrew talk about it.

Committees examine these bills for a reason.

They hear from experts, consider unintended consequences, and guess what they also do? Propose amendments.

Why didn't the Liberals just amend it? Conservative MP Tamara Jansen indicated that her party was willing to address wording concerns through that process, which raises a rather straightforward question then.

If the government's concern was the wording, why not allow the bill to proceed to committee and attempt to fix that wording? [laughs] Because it was Conservative, that's why.

Uh, what we were hoping is that the, the, the government would modify the MAID legislation to allow advanced requests nationally so that everyone in Canada would have access to it.

Mrs. Jansen.

The announcement came just ahead of a vote on a conservative private member's bill that would have broadened the exclusion for mental health conditions.

Langley MP Tamara Jansen says the government is playing politics.

Political game being played just hours before we are about to vote on a very, very important bill, which would protect vulnerable Canadians' lives, is very shocking to me.

The justice minister says the legislation will be tabled this fall.

They are playing games with people's lives.

So after this was announced by Justice Minister and Attorney General Sean Fraser at a press conference, every single liberal except for two, Floor Crosser Marilyn Gladue and Prince Edward Island MP Kent MacDonald voted against Tamara Jansen's bill to ban euthanasia for the mentally ill later that afternoon.

And before I get into some of the clips from the press conference and parliament to kind of give you an idea of what unfolded on Wednesday, I want to explain why I still think that yesterday was a real victory, even though it's a very qualified victory.

And I think Pierre Poliev's statement kind of gets at the heart of it.

These people are as slippery as eels.

And I don't think we should count our chickens before they're hatched, if you'll excuse the mixing of metaphors.

At this point, we're going to shift to Tamara Jansen and the comments of the MPs who fought so long and hard to ensure that Canadians with mental illness are protected and get their, I think... very just, righteous indignation in response to Sean Fraser's cynical games.

When we have a bill that we're about to vote on that has bipartisan support, does exactly what the committee recommended it do.

And by the end of it, we had one of these rare points of cross-partisan consensus where Liberal and Conservative MPs on the committee both agreed the expansion should not proceed.

We had a bill on the books that was presented back in June of last year, of 2025, C-218, for my colleague Tamara Jansen, which would stop the expansion.

Very easy.

It's a one-page bill.