Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Dr. Gaind, I want to step back from this and approach it from a Charter of Rights and Freedoms angle.
I know that you and I are not constitutional experts, but you know what's invoked when we we look at section 7, which is the security of the person, the right to life and so on. Basically the layperson's interpretation is that everyone has the right to make decisions about what happens to their own body. Of course, section 15 provides that everyone has equality under the law. In section 1, some rights of the charter can be justifiably infringed upon by a free and democratic society.
My struggle through every aspect of my work on the special joint committee has always been trying to find a balance between an individual's rights to make decisions about their own body and the need for society to sometimes step in and protect our most vulnerable. That's been a real struggle for me—I won't lie.
I'm just wondering from your perspective and from other physicians' perspectives, when it comes to this particular issue of mental disorders as a sole underlying medical condition, how do you approach and find that balance?