The B.C. government announced proposed amendments to the Mental Health Act on Monday designed to better protect front-line health care workers who treat patients taken into involuntary care.

Premier David Eby and Health Minister Josie Osborne announced the changes at the B.C. legislature on Monday. They said the amendments, if passed, would update a four-decade-old section of the Act that offered limited legal protection to front-line health care workers who treat involuntary patients.

“By strengthening involuntary care and protecting the people who deliver it, we’re taking an important step to support vulnerable patients, help their families and build a more responsive mental-health system where no one falls through the cracks,” said Eby in a statement.

Section 31(1) of the Act would b

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