Faye Sonier
Faye Sonier is the Managing Director of The Acacia Group and Executive Director and General Legal Counsel for Canadian Physicians for Life. Faye was formerly with the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, practicing constitutional law, working on matters relating to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and human rights legislation, practicing in both official languages. Prior to joining the EFC, Faye articled in the Corporate/Charity law section of an Ottawa firm. She has also worked at the Senate of Canada and in a public policy firm. Faye graduated from the University of Ottawa's French Common Law program in 2007. In 2006, Faye completed the Advanced Negotiation Program at Harvard Law School. Faye and her husband live in Ottawa, Ontario.
Bio last updated June 17th, 2021.
Articles by Faye Sonier
Open Wide and Say Law
By Faye Sonier and Kiely Williams
April 28, 2021
Calgary physician Dr. Kiely Williams and Ottawa lawyer Faye Sonier show how the expansion of MAiD has given lawyers medical authority while silencing doctors who consider it very bad medicine.
Block's bill ensures that physicians can practice medicine in a way that considers the patient as an individual facing unique circumstances, and that these same physicians cannot be sanctioned for refusing to parrot federal law or hospital policy that cannot possibly account for all the factors involved in high-quality, patient-centered care
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It’s Wrong To Call Abortion A Right
Andrea Mrozek with Faye Sonier
January 23, 2018
Citing the Supreme Court’s historic Morgentaler decision, Andrea Mrozek and Faye Sonier show why Prime Minister Trudeau gets so-called abortion rights so wrong.
This is a far cry from the claim that the Morgentaler decision established a right to abortion or that advocating for legislators to develop laws to protect the pre-born child is somehow anti-Charter Gavigan of Osgoode Hall Law School echoes the idea that the Morgentaler decision did not create a ri...
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Deadly Misinformation
Albertos Polizogopoulos and Faye Sonier
December 21, 2016
Even if Picard’s unfounded and unsupported legal conclusion that the Supreme Court found there was a right to assisted suicide were correct — and again, there is no such right — should the burden of ensuring people’s access to this service fall on private faith-based hospitals? Or should it fall on ...
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Protecting Patients in the Shadows of Euthanasia: 3 Recommendations
Faye Sonier
October 12, 2016
This agency could provide a team of expert assessors who would screen patients with a wish for euthanasia or assisted suicide, to offer help for any untreated symptoms and who would address deficits in the social determinants of health such as inadequate support or loneliness Even Justice Lynn Smith...
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What does post-Carter Canada look like?
Faye Sonier
June 28, 2016
In Canada, access to palliative care varies from excellent to extremely poor based on where one lives yet euthanasia is now expected to be available anywhere at the first request The Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) reported in 2010 that 32% of all assisted deaths (including euthanasia an...