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Others would have stipulated that only someone with a terminal disease would be eligible and only once they’re deemed to have less than 30 days to live.

Earlier Monday, Trudeau, who has promised a free vote on the bill and has vowed to empower committees, told a news conference that his government is “always open to good ideas and to making improvements to bills.” He said the government would review opposition proposals on the assisted dying bill and may consider some of them.

Please pass at least one opposition amendment to C-14. I think it will improve our sense of a healthy democracy.

However, Liberals on the committee later concluded that only two of roughly three dozen proposed amendments — one from the Conservatives, one from the Liberals, both relatively minor — would improve a bill that they appear to have decided strikes the right balance.

Green party Leader Elizabeth May tried and failed to win support for several amendments aimed at removing restrictive conditions that the bill would impose on a person’s eligibility for an assisted death — conditions that many legal experts have said fly in the face of the Supreme Court’s ruling on the matter.

“Please pass at least one opposition amendment to C-14,” she pleaded at one point. “I think it will improve our sense of a healthy democracy.”

Her plea fell on deaf ears, prompting Bloc MP Luc Theriault to opine: “This is not how we build a consensus; there have been no amendments or hardly any or any substantive ones that have been agreed to … I’m very hurt to see that this has happened this evening.”