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The claim: Posts claim that the Canadian government recommends expanding MAID to minors.

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AFP Fact Check found that a document circulating online does not prove that assisted death has been legally expanded to minors in Canada. The material was partly false.

Checked by AFP Fact Check (“Partly false”) · 2025

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