Thank you, Chair. There are many questions to ask and a lot of excellent witnesses.
I'm going to focus on Barreau du Québec because you are the first legal organization we've spoken with outside of the justice department.
The Department of Justice and the ministers are quite certain and quite confident that Bill C-14 is charter compliant and fully fulfills Carter. I take it that you are not in agreement with either of those assertions.
You talked about some of this already, so I'll focus on one small aspect in particular.
The definition of a grievous and irremediable condition includes a requirement for the patient to be in an advanced state of irreversible decline. Do you think that this is mandated by Carter and do you think it's an appropriate condition?