Jocelyn Downie, CM, FRSC, FCAHS, SJD is a Professor Emeritus in the Faculties of Law and Medicine at Dalhousie University. Her work on end-of-life law and policy includes: Special Advisor to the Canadian Senate Committee on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide; author of Dying Justice: A Case for the Decriminalizing Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide in Canada (winner of the Abbyann Day Lynch Medal in Bioethics from the Royal Society of Canada); and member of the Royal Society of Canada Expert Panel on End-of-Life Decision-Making, the plaintiffs’ legal team in Carter v. Canada (Attorney General), the Provincial-Territorial Expert Advisory Group on Physician-Assisted Dying, the Canadian Council of Academies Expert Panel on Medical Assistance in Dying, and the MAiD Practice Standards Task Group. She is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Canada and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. She was named a member of the Order of Canada in part in recognition of her work advocating for high-quality, end-of-life care.

Daphne Gilbert teaches criminal and constitutional law at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law. Her current research interests include MAiD and conscientious objection. Together with Jocelyn Downie she is part of a team that is bringing a constitutional challenge to the practice of forced transfers from faith-influenced
hospitals. She is Vice Chair of Dying with Dignity Canada.

I have/had an affiliation (financial or otherwise) with a for-profit or not-for-profit organization.
- Member of an advisory board or speakers’ bureau (Dying with Dignity Canada)

I do not intend to make therapeutic recommendations for medications that have not received regulatory approval (i.e., “off-label” use of medications).