Tom Kmiec at the Justice and Human Rights Committee

I'm going to pick up on something that Professor Bourassa said.

Should one of the safeguards that we could add to this bill be that the attending physician, the medical practitioner responsible for ensuring that all the requirements are met, be required to understand the underlying condition the patient has, before being one of those who are allowed to sign off in documenting that the patient is eligible for medical assistance in dying? Should that training and knowledge be a requirement in the bill?

I'll go back to Professor Bourassa for an answer to that.