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and safeguards of the MAID Act. After considerable debate in the House of Commons and the Senate, Bill C-7 passed the legislature, received royal assent and came into force on March 17, 2021. The purpose of this Recent Developments column is to consider the new amendments to Canada’s MAID Act. What is interesting about this development is that the final version of Bill C-7 is significantly different to the initial Bill introduced by the Minister of Justice, the Hon. David Lametti. At the close of my previous discussion, I postulated that “whilst it is clear that this development will result in a wider pool of persons eligible to access MAID, what remains to be seen is just how wide the pool will become.” Now that Bill C-7 has been enacted, it can be added that, for better or worse, the pool is much, much wider than initially thought.