Murray Rankin at the Justice and Human Rights Committee

I need to know, then, what amendments we have to make to this bill in order to make it charter-compliant and Carter-compliant, because one of the witnesses told us earlier that in Quebec there are examples of people who have had to starve themselves to death in order to avail themselves of physician-assisted dying in that jurisdiction.

That is likely the reasonably foreseeable consequence of enacting this bill as well. Would that constitute cruel and unusual punishment for people who are required to do that?