Yes on mental illness, not yet on advance requests: Conservatives on the MAID bill
Conservative MP Michael Cooper sets out where his party stands on the two changes the Liberal government plans for Canada's assisted-dying law.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 39,947 views a day, 160 times a normal first day on this channel (250).
Conservatives oppose upcoming government MAID bill
A political Short broke out. The Canadian Press clip passed 15,000 views within six hours of going up, on a channel whose Shorts usually gather a couple of hundred on an entire first day.
Its subject is the Liberal government's plan to bring in legislation making two separate changes to Canada's medical assistance in dying laws. In the clip, Conservative MP Michael Cooper gives his party's position on each. The Conservatives back one change, which would exclude people whose only condition is a mental illness from seeking assisted dying. They want more study on the other, which would decriminalize advance requests, where a person asks for MAID ahead of time.
Both questions have a long history. Canada legalized assisted dying in 2016. Extending eligibility to people with mental illness alone was later written into law but postponed more than once, and the current timetable pushed it to 2027. Advance requests are already allowed in Quebec under the province's own rules, which took effect in 2024.
The Short arrived during a quieter stretch for the channel as a whole, which was running well below its usual daily pace. That makes a brief clip of one MP explaining a party's position on a sensitive bill the main thing moving on The Canadian Press right now.
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- Channel
- The Canadian Press
- Subscribers
- 176,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 2,812,902
- Channel views, pace per day
- 61,563 (on a normal day: 380,787)
- Video published
- October 7, 2026
- Video views so far
- 15,852 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 39,947
The numbers
A short news clip that moved far beyond what this channel's Shorts usually reach on their first day.
