Thank you.
I'll start with a question for you, Dr. Smith. I would like to acknowledge your leadership, sir, not only at the joint Senate-House committee, where your testimony was invaluable, but in your presidency of the B.C. Medical Association and your work with the CMA. I want to thank you for your testimony.
You acknowledged in an answer to a colleague's question that advance directives were not identified in Carter but were recommended as part of the medical assistance in dying by that Senate-House committee. We were told by the Dying With Dignity witness earlier today that a majority of Canadians have spoken in favour of this in polling.
I'd like you to talk about your experience with this. You talked about advance directives in the context of do-not-resuscitate orders. I'd like you to speak more as a leading physician on how this would work in practice were we to implement it.