Québec Constitutional Bill 2025 would create a "right to be killed"

Alex Schadenberg
Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition

The Québec National Assembly, on October 9, 2025; has proposed a bill to change the Québec constitution with - The Québec Constitional Bill 2025. The purpose of the bill is to "protect" Québec's identity as a secular society.

The Québec Constitutional Bill 2025 would also create "right to be killed"

An article by François Carabin and Marco Bélair-Cirino that was published by Le Devoir on October 9 stated:

The Bill amends the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms to "protect the right of Quebecers to die with dignity and to receive medical assistance in dying when their condition requires it."

The Le Devoir article further stated:

Justice Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette presented his draft "Quebec Constitutional Act, 2025" to the National Assembly. This "law of all laws"—which, in his view, would have "primacy over any incompatible rule of law"—would reinforce the "fundamental values" of the "beautiful nation" of Quebec, starting with gender equality.

The Québec government is proposing to change its constitution to ensure that the cultural changes in Québec cannot be changed. The article states:

To achieve this, he also proposes amending the "Provincial Constitution" section of the Constitutional Act of Canada, 1867, to add "three new provisions on the fundamental characteristics of Quebec, namely the secularism of the State, the model of integration into the Quebec nation and the civil law tradition" to the one added in 2022, "French is the only official language of Quebec [and] the common language of the Quebec nation."

The Québec Constitution Bill 2025 is likely unconstitutional and is incredibly dangerous as it would create a constitutional right to kill.