Mr. Chair, we have talked a lot about vulnerable individuals today, but is there anything more vulnerable than a person with a degenerative medical condition or someone experiencing intolerable suffering? However, in order to prevail, that person would have to go to court. As Mr. Rankin pointed out, all the criteria established in this provision are confusing and subject to interpretation.
I have had a look at the Liberal amendments a bit further down, and I think they feel that subsection 241.2(2) of the bill—as is or nearly—is in line with the Carter decision. I would like someone to manage to convince me that paragraph 241.2(2)(d) belongs in this bill. The Minister of Justice's claim that Ms. Carter would have had access to medical assistance in dying under this provision leads me to say the same thing others have mentioned. The only way to interpret natural death becoming reasonably foreseeable is to base the interpretation on age discrimination, and that would be completely dismissed.
I previously said that, by wanting to clarify matters, we end up imposing obligations that run totally counter to the charter and to the Carter decision. So instead of saying nothing, the Liberals should put forth some arguments and try to convince me. I have read the amendments, and the Liberals are refusing to remove paragraph 241.2(2)(d). If this amendment gets defeated, I would at least like them to tell me why they want to keep this provision that has been dismissed by all the legal experts who followed the Carter case.