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Quebec tables bill on involuntary hospitalization
Bill 23 broadens involuntary hospitalization criteria to include 'situations where there is a danger' and adds procedural safeguards, backed by $104.4 million for mental health reforms.
- On Tuesday, Quebec Health Minister Sonia Belanger tabled Bill 23 to broaden involuntary hospitalization criteria, replacing the requirement for "grave and immediate" danger with a "situation where there is a danger."
- Following the 2023 killing of police officer Maureen Breau and a convenience store owner killed this month, officials aim to modernize the 25-year-old Bill P-38, which critics argue delayed intervention in extreme cases.
- Doctors and nurse practitioners can now confine individuals for seven days without immediate tribunal review; extending hospitalization beyond one week requires an application to the Administrative Tribunal of Quebec.
- Premier Francois Legault stated the government has a "responsibility to compel" treatment, while opposition leaders and the Quebec Institute for Law and Justice Reform warned the bill poses a "serious infringement of people's fundamental rights and freedoms.
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In the cartons for months, Québec finally presented its modernization of the Act respecting the protection of persons whose mental state poses a danger to themselves or to others, called P-38, to better prevent the dramas in mental crisis.
·Montreal, Canada
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Quebec intends to introduce its bill to ease the criterion of danger in the law to hospitalize someone against their will.
·Montreal, Canada
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Leaning Left21Leaning Right0Center4Last UpdatedBias Distribution84% Left
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