This is the process in Winnipeg if your elderly mother is dying at a catholic hospital today and requests assisted dying. 

The palliative care team is not even allowed to approach and assess her for this procedure. It is essentially an unspoken act. The family has to pursue transfer to another hospital in the region for discussion despite the fact that she has been admitted to her current ward for weeks. Beds may not be readily available for transfer. So you wait, hopefully not too many days. Only when a bed is available do they bundle up your frail mother and transfer her across the city on a bumpy ride in -30 degrees to a new hospital where no one knows her. You get readmitted and have to meet an entirely new health care team. Only then can discussions on MAD take place. 

This is merciful? As a Catholic physician caring for some of the sickest patients, I'm appalled. 

Yes we move people around for angiograms and what not, but treating the dying the same is inhumane.