PETITION REGARDING THE CANADIAN HEALTH CARE INSURANCE SYSTEM AND THE
CANADIAN JUDICIAL SYSTEM AS APPLIED TO THE “END-OF-LIFE” DECISION MAKING
This petition is made to ask the Government of Canada and all Provincial
Governments in Canada to respect the Candians’ Constitution, our Charter
of Rights and Freedoms and more precisely, our rights to “life, freedom
and security” as well as our right to be treated equally under the law.
For this purpose, I ask the Government of Canada and all the provincial
governments of Canada:
1.
That our Health Care System and our Judicial System be administered in
such way as to disallow all age or handicap discrimination, as well as
all bias based on remaining life expectancy, regardless of age, illness
or handicap.
2.
That our Health Care System pay out all legitimate claims made, in a
fair and equitable manner, to all those who make claims, regardless of
age, illness or handicap.
3.
That our emergency rooms or the critical care units never turn away any
patient who arrives requesting care and whose condition is of urgent or
critical nature, not until there is medical certainty that upon
dismissal or discharge from such a unit, the patient’s right to life,
freedom and security was assured, that the patient is medically safe,
regardless of age, illness or handicap.
4.
That our acute care or critical care units always accept all acutely or
critically ill patients, regardless of age, illness or handicap such as
to ensure that the patient’s right to life and security is being upheld;
that critical care units never turn a patient away before medical proof
is available to show the patient is no longer critically or acutely ill;
that they never deliberately and unilaterally refuse admission to a
critically or acutely ill patient, so as to “allow them to die”.
5.
That doctors not be entitled and be disallowed to unilaterally decide to
withdraw treatment from patients, regardless of age, illness or
invalidity.
6.
That neither the medical professionals, nor the judicial system, nor any
appointed officials of the state, via any legal Courts or via any state
created Boards, be authorized to make
judgements regarding quality of life of patients who are
incapable of expressing themselves, that they not be permitted to decide
upon important life or death matters on the patient’s behalf, such as
end-of-life decisions, regardless of the situation,
and regardless of age, illness or invalidity such as to avoid
discrimination and personal
bias. That these decisions be treated as strictly personal and be left
to the patients and their family or to the patient’s appointed power of
attorney.
7.
That doctors or Courts be disallowed to decide to unilaterally withhold
or withdraw life support, regardless of the patient’s age, illness or
invalidity.
8.
That a doctor’s responsibility be clearly specified and limited to
providing medical treatment and medical care to all their patients
equally; to preserving and prolonging life, but never deliberately
ending it; to improving their patients’ medical condition to the best
possible level (according to the knowledge and ability of the
practitioner as well as to the best available medication and available
technology), but to never deliberately and unilaterally deciding to
worsen a patient’s condition by withdrawing treatment or by not
providing the necessary testing and medication, regardless of the
patient’s age, illness or invalidity.
9.
That end-of-life decisions specifically be made solely by the patients,
their family members or their appointed Power of Attorneys and by nobody
else.
10.
That Courts of law and state created Boards not be authorized to give
doctors any approval to terminate their patients’ lives by “letting them
die”.
11.
That the Criminal Code of Canada
be upheld and applied to medical professionals and Hospitals equally, in
the same manner that it is applied to any and all citizens or
corporations of Canada.
12.
That all records, medical, administrative or other related to the
patient or the patient’s substitute decision maker be by law regarded as
the patient’s property and not the property of the institution who
recorded them.
13.
That “access to information rights” incorporate all the information
pertaining to the patient or the patient’s family available to the
medical and administrative staff, anywhere in the Hospital or medical
clinic, and that no information be kept secret from the patient or from
the family member acting as the substitute decision maker on the
patient’s behalf. That the patient’s medical and administrative
information be made readily available to the patient or the patients’
family/power of attorney, upon demand and that if copies cannot be
provided on a short notice, the documents should be provided upon
request for consultation and reading.
The above petitioned points constitute present current practices and
they are in direct violation of our Charter of Rights and Freedoms, of
our Canadian Criminal Code, of our Access to Information Acts, of the
Canadian Medical Codes of Ethics as well as of the many Provincial
Medical Codes of Ethics. I can no longer accept this. These practices
are in violation of my human rights and freedoms. They must be
eliminated as soon as possible. I do not want to live in a country or a
province that authorizes medical professionals to add killing to their
professional responsibilities. I do not want my doctors to have approval
to “let” me or my loved ones “die”!
I hereby respectfully request of my federal and provincial governments
to introduce legislation for the medical professionals and for the
medical institutions such as Hospitals, Clinics, Asylums, etc., that
will ensure they abide by our Constitution, by the Canadian Criminal
law, by the Access to Information legislature as well as by their own
Code of Ethics regulations which should become Medical Ethics Acts.
Since our country operates on jurisprudence and since our jurisprudence
shows that our Courts have traditionally allowed the medical
professionals and the medical institutions to make exception from the
law, (see decisions that have allowed doctors to terminate their
patients’ lives) I demand that new legislature be introduced that will
rectify this problem.
I respectfully submit that according to our Canadian Charter of Rights
and Freedoms, all Canadian citizens must be treated equally under the
law, regardless of their occupation, and that all Canadian institutions
must be treated equally under the law, regardless of their field of
operation. They must all be held responsible and accountable to respect
and ensure the safety and security of the individual and the public at
large. In conclusion I hereby request that my federal and provincial
governments introduce legislature such that medical professionals and
medical institutions, be held equally accountable and liable, under the
same laws and in the same manner as the rest of us.
My name and tel. number are…………………………………………………..…………...
My address is………………………………………………………………………………….
Signed on this day of……………………in this city of……………………………….………..
Signature……………………………………………………………………
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