Here, we are facing a different challenge: how to legislate in respect of assisted suicide. Bill C-14 uses the same terminology as the Quebec law. However, there is confusion about what the Quebec law covers, and so this bill still does not completely govern assisted suicide, in the belief that it answers the question of what medical assistance in dying should be.
You told us that medical assistance in dying should be limited to "adult patients on the brink of natural death." In fact, the words "natural death" are problematic for me. That seems to be based more on the Quebec law. However, a person suffering from a degenerative disease—for example, ALS—is not entitled to make an advance request and is ultimately condemned to become a prisoner in their own body and to die choking on their own mucus because the law does not give them the right to assisted suicide. When that happens, the person is very far along in the process. A person can be in the terminal stage of a disease without being in the terminal phase of life.
What do you mean by natural death? In palliative care, death is induced by the sedation you are given to control pain.