sterilization. "Committee of person" empowers a person to make personal and medical decisions for an incompetent adult, but the Supreme Court ruled that this does not include non-therapeutic sterilization. The Supreme Court's "no-exceptions" approach has garnered some criticism from various organizations, however after the Eve vs. Mrs. E case, the court stated, "it was difficult to imagine a case in which non-therapeutic sterilization could possibly be of benefit" to a mentally incompetent person.
             On October 23, 1986, the justices of the Supreme Court, acting on the state's powers to protect mentally incompetent persons announced their unanimous decision negating a lower court order authorizing the sterilization of a mentally incompetent young woman at the request of her widowed mother. The young woman, Eve, was said to be incapable of raising a child and her widowed, elderly mother did not want to have to assume that responsibility for her. Eve's mother applied to the court for permission to sterilize her daughter. The judge agreed, concluding that Eve "might be able to carry out the mechanical duties of a mother, under the supervision...She is incapable of being a mother in any other sense." He authorized a hysterectomy. The public trustee of the province
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