It would be a perverse outcome not only of Carter but of this bill. This person Tony Nicklinson who I mentioned, actually brought his own case in England, and he was unsuccessful there. He ended up starving himself to death. As anybody who knows anything about starving yourself to death knows, that's pure torture.
The trial judge and the Supreme Court of Canada recognized that, and yet under this bill, a person who, like Tony Nicklinson, has 20 years of utter and intolerable misery and suffering ahead of him, would not be able to seek the assistance of a physician in dying but would nevertheless be able to starve himself to death, and maybe not quite to death, maybe to a point where a doctor would finally say, “You know, if you don't drink or eat something in the next few days, your death is reasonably foreseeable.” Then bango, he's entitled to physician-assisted dying because he has opted to engage in this process that, in my view, is cruel and unusual.
That seems to be a very perverse outcome of a bill that's supposed to prevent people from suffering.