I would welcome an opportunity to come back before this committee in its study of medically assisted suicide, because I believe that practice has run amok. It was, I believe, accepted by the Canadian public to deal with people near the end of life in insufferable, untreatable, physical pain, and now it has gone to the lengths of being literally a new response to holes in the social safety net. This is devastating, but the message I would convey to you as parliamentarians is this: Look at how quickly Parliament passed amendments to make medically assisted suicide more quickly—that is to say “dying”—focusing on only people with disabilities.
I call on you to move with even greater speed to make it easier to live with a disability, and that includes not only those under 65 but also those over 65.