I think you'll have to speak to the lawyers, who have more expertise than I have in those matters. I'm just the lowly physician on the panel.
On the other hand, the Government of Canada is initiating a policy that will allow for medically hastened death. If that is the case, they also want to make sure that people are giving valid, informed consent. Part of getting valid, informed consent is that somebody know and be aware of all of the options available to them.
It seems to me that a palliative consultation—not just, by the way, for somebody who is requesting medically hastened death, but for any dying patient who is experiencing intolerable suffering.... It seems unimaginable that in the Canada we know and love, a palliative consultation and the availability of palliative care expertise wouldn't inform what we would want to be in place and available for all patients before a decision was made that a hastened death would be provided.