Ladies and gentlemen, it gives me great pleasure to welcome all of our witnesses to the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights.
I want to let you know in advance, that as a result of votes in the House of Commons, we may need to suspend the meeting and have all the members go vote in the middle of testimony. You will not lose any time. We will suspend and come back.
Our panels today will probably drag later and run late as a result. We're very sorry. It's just the way things ended up.
Again, we very much appreciate you all being here.
We have Dr. Catherine Ferrier, president of the Physicians’ Alliance against Euthanasia; Mr. Michel Racicot, from Living With Dignity; Wanda Morris, from the Canadian Association of Retired Persons; and from the Canadian Medical Association, Dr. Cindy Forbes, president, and Jeff Blackmer, vice-president, medical professionalism.
Each of you has eight minutes. We'd ask you to stick to the bill itself and propose amendments to the bill. We don't want to replicate the work of the special committee.
We will start with the Canadian Medical Association, Dr. Forbes, the floor is yours.
Before we start, I need the unanimous consent of the committee to continue to proceed while the bells are ringing. Do I have unanimous consent to proceed while the bells are ringing?