You're quite correct that the advance directives were not in Carter. They were in the report of the special joint committee and that's what I was referencing. As I said previously, we already have advance directives in Canadian medicine. We can agree to not be tube-fed, not be resuscitated, and all manner of other things.
I am suggesting to the committee that we need to follow the advice of the special joint committee and make it available generally to Canadians who can consent to something when they are competent anticipating that two or three years down the line, they are going to be living in misery and condemned to that state for an extended period of time until they finally die.
I would agree with you. It's not in Carter, but it is in the special joint committee which is a committee of Parliament and the Senate of Canada.