The government will accept most of the changes to Bill C-14 made by the Senate, but will maintain that only those who are near death should qualify for medical assistance in dying.
On June 7, assisted dying will become legal, but the laws providing regulation have not yet been passed. This may lead to doctors being put in situations for which they are not prepared or protected.
Democracy Watch's warning comes two days after a CN Rail ad promoting its efforts to held Syrian refugees in Canada featured cabinet ministers John McCallum and Jane Philpott.
Ninety people were put through a multi-step process, some under the eye of three federal cabinet ministers who travelled to the Jordanian capital to see first hand their plan to admit 25,000 refugees.