2025年5月13日，肖恩·弗雷泽在加拿大安大略省渥太华的里多宫举行的内阁改组仪式上宣誓就任加拿大司法部长和总检察长。据路透社/布莱尔·盖布尔/文件照片报道。
Sean Fraser swears in as Canada's Minister of Justice and Attorney General, during a cabinet shuffle at Rideau Hall, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada May 13, 2025. TORONTO, Oct 7 - Canada’s Justice Minister Sean Fraser said on Wednesday the government will introduce legislation this autumn to exclude mental illness as the sole reason for euthanasia months after a parliamentary committee made a similar recommendation.
多伦多，10月7日——加拿大司法部长肖恩·弗雷泽周三表示，政府将在今年秋季推出立法，禁止将精神疾病作为实施安乐死的唯一理由。这一决定是在一个议会委员会提出类似建议几个月后作出的。
Fraser said he did not anticipate further restrictions on Canada’s euthanasia legislation, which has created one of the world’s most permissive systems for assisted dying.
弗雷泽表示，他不预期加拿大的安乐死立法会进一步受到限制，因为该立法已经使加拿大成为全球对辅助死亡最持开放态度的国家之一。
Fraser said the bill would also include provisions for advance requests from people seeking to be euthanized if they lose capacity to make that decision in the future, such as in cases of dementia or Alzheimer’s disease.
他还表示，法案将包括针对那些未来可能失去决策能力（如患有痴呆症或阿尔茨海默病）的人的预先请求条款。
The government will amend Canada’s Criminal Code to ensure doctors who comply with the criteria set out for euthanasia are not prosecuted as criminals.
政府将修改《刑法》，确保符合安乐死标准的医生不会被作为罪犯起诉。
弗雷泽指出，加拿大只允许在那些通过立法允许为‘患有不治之症且正在遭受难以忍受的痛苦’的人提供安乐死的省份实施安乐死，并且这些省份必须有严格的保障措施。
Fraser said Canada would only allow euthanasia in provinces that legislate its access to people “who are suffering from incurable illnesses and are experiencing intolerable suffering” and where there are rigorous safeguards in place.
倡导组织‘Dying with Dignity’此前曾称，加拿大禁止因精神疾病原因寻求安乐死的行为违反了该国的《权利与自由宪章》，并正在积极对加拿大政府提起诉讼。
Advocacy group Dying with Dignity has previously described Canada’s exclusion of people seeking euthanasia for mental illness reasons as a violation of the country’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms and is actively involved in multiple lawsuits against the Canadian government.