Eligibility criteria for access to MAID in Quebec:

• The person is insured according to the Health Insurance Act;
• The person is at least 18 years of age and capable of giving consent to care;
• The person is suffering from a serious and incurable disease;
• The person’s medical condition is in an advanced state of irreversible decline in capability;
• The person is experiencing constant and unbearable physical or psychological suffering that cannot be relieved in a manner that they deem tolerable.

The Criminal Code of Canada, for its part, specifies that “a person has a grievous and irremediable medical condition only if they meet all of the following criteria:

• They have a serious and incurable illness, disease or disability;
• They are in an advanced state of irreversible decline in capability;
• That illness, disease or disability or that state of decline causes them enduring physical or psychological suffering that is intolerable to them and that cannot be relieved under conditions that they consider acceptable.”