I struggled a bit with whether or not we must require a palliative care consult in all cases. Indeed, if we look at what clinical practice actually looks like these days, you might have a patient before you and, given the needs of that patient, you might bring in any number of consults: you might bring in somebody with a social work perspective to help inform the work; you might bring in somebody from palliative care; you might invite a psychiatric consult—but all of that is driven by the needs of the patient.
It is here that I think there is a divide between what we might like to see in a Criminal Code amendment and what is really the domain of good clinical practice, which falls under the jurisdiction of the provinces.