I would say this, that Justice Dickson at paragraph 143 in the Edwards Books decision counselled the avoidance of inquiries into people's religious beliefs. From our perspective, this doesn't have to be made to be about religious beliefs. There are long-standing beliefs, thousands of years old, with respect to the killing of your patient, which were originally enshrined in the Hippocratic Oath, and the Nightingale Pledge, which is the nurses' version of the Hippocratic Oath. They've been in existence for centuries in various forms, and many, many physicians today—you heard the statistics, 70%—don't want any part of this. You don't erase centuries of conscience protections ingrained in the medical profession with the slash of a pen. They're there, and whether they're ethical or they're conscience or religion-based, or it's just a matter of someone saying, “I feel uncomfortable about it, and I don't want to participate”, people have the right not to do that under the charter. That's our position.
On May 4th, 2016. See this statement in context.