Thank you very much.
I appreciate everybody's attendance today, and the presentations. Thank you.
I'd like to start with the Alliance of People with Disabilities Who Are Supportive of Legal Assisted Dying Society. In response to one of my colleague's questions earlier, there was a question regarding advance directives and the compliance with Carter. Carter is silent on advance directives. You mentioned that you believe it should be included in the bill, some allowance for advance directives, because of the section 7 arguments that are bound to come before the court. I'm wondering, given the preamble to the bill, which does recognize there would be some further study of this....
In number four of your recommendations you talk about mature minors and mentally ill, and going to further study, but by a more robust or ambitious type of independent expert who would make recommendations that would come back to Parliament, I presume. We heard from a witness earlier today that with regard to advance directives, one thing we could do is send it out to independent experts and report back to Parliament within 18 months.
I'm wondering if you would agree that doing that for advance directives, as well as for the mature minors and mental illness, would be satisfactory.