Thank you.
In terms of the definition of the services to be covered, it's for the government to choose. I'm recommending something that's beyond just the end-of-life care. I'm saying we should have pain control from even one to two years before, and I think we want to have hospital care for palliative services, hospice care, and home care as covered services. I'd like to see these fully covered.
I also believe we need to cover spiritual and emotional counselling, which is something that is a little controversial as well, but to me very important. If I look at the model in Sarnia—Lambton, we have palliative care specialists who are working out of the hospice with a crisis response team, with spiritual and emotional counselling integrated into a home network. This is the same model that's in the West Island hospice in Montreal and in a number of what I would consider the leading-edge hospices.
Those are the services that I believe should be defined.