"Indigenous leaders from across Canada say they have “grave concerns” about efforts to expand the availability of assisted suicide, warning it will have “a lasting impact on our vulnerable populations.”

In a letter entitled Indigenous Peoples Should Not Be Compelled to Provide or Facilitate Medical Assistance in Dying, 15 First Nations representatives and Indigenous health-care workers and leaders asked the government to “recognize the value of Aboriginal healing practices” and Canadians’ right not to be “compelled to provide or facilitate in the provision of MAiD” (medical assistance in dying).""First Nations leaders say Bill C7 Goes Against Their Beliefs and Values,"Grandin Media, Feb. 12, 2021.