Feds spend nearly $5.5M training MAID providers — including new funding for mental illness guidance — as Alberta pushes back

Subhead:Ottawa says provinces — not the federal government — are responsible for determining whether practitioners are adequately trained to assess MAID requests for mental illness.# The federal government has spent nearly $5.5 million training medical assistance in dying (MAID) providers, including targeted funding to prepare for the expansion of euthanasia to those suffering from mental illness alone, a move Alberta is actively resisting. According to a March 23, 2026 response to Order Paper Question Q-834, Health Canada provided $4,973,196 between 2021/22 and 2025/26 to the Canadian Association of Medical Assistance in Dying Assessors and Providers to develop and deliver the national MAID training curriculum. That funding has now been extended through 2026/27, with an additional $550,000 allocated to broaden access beyond clinicians and build a centralized “National MAID Professionals Knowledge Base.”

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