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CAQ to table bill on compulsory hospitalization for mental health crises
Bill 23 lowers the involuntary hospitalization threshold from 'serious and immediate' danger to 'a situation where there is a danger,' with $104.4 million funding over five years.
- 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."
- Finance Minister Eric Girard allocated $104.4 million over five years for implementation, with parliamentary leader Simon Jolin-Barrette expecting passage by June 12 and citing Ontario's "Brian's Law" as a successful intervention model.
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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 tables bill on involuntary hospitalization
QUÉBEC - Quebec's minister of health and social services has tabled a bill to relax the criteria for the involuntary hospitalization of patients experiencing a mental health crisis.
·Waterloo, 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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