Thanks, Chair, and thanks to Mr. Ste-Marie for providing this and putting this forward.
I am very empathetic to the attempt here—wanting to ensure psychoeducators in Quebec are included. I understand that the desire is to make a specific reference to them. However, we have a couple of concerns related to this.
One, we feel strongly that the terms of the bill refer to a “practitioner”. Those practitioners, in fact, would include psychoeducators and other professions in counselling therapy. The bill itself should already include Quebec's psychoeducators. That's the first point.
Maybe I can go to the officials to clarify whether in fact this is the case, because I don't want Mr. Ste-Marie to just take my word for it.