Absolutely.
I think of our members, individuals who are dealing with multiple chronic illnesses, often in great pain. To tell them that they can have assistance to die only if death is reasonably foreseeable is to leave many of them without the compassionate support they are looking for.
When we look at the history of the issue of the right to die in Canada, we see people with ALS, Parkinson's, MS, Huntington's disease—diseases that can cause great suffering but where death is certainly not imminent and, perhaps a doctor may say, not reasonably foreseeable. I think of individuals with multiple chronic degenerative diseases who are suffering greatly and want access to assistance to die. For us to deny them is to thwart the spirit of the Supreme Court's decision.