One glaring gap in the ruling is the apparent exclusion of permitting such end-of-life decisions via an Advanced Health Care Directive (or whatever it might be called in other jurisdictions), the point of which was to get as close to calling one's end-of-life shots as possible under the applicable legal strictures.
Of course, it remains to be seen whether such will be included in the ultimate rewriting of the Criminal Code and/or individual provinces' health care acts and wording of the ethical provisions of provincial colleges of physicians and surgeons.
We may be heading down the rabbit hole of Alice's world, given the vicissitudes of morality and politics and jurisprudence.
