My concern for this bill in its entirety comes out of the fact that I do value our health care system here in Canada, and I do think allowing our health care professionals, or requiring them, to perform euthanasia or assisted suicide will undermine people's trust in the system. I do think that we have to do everything we can to ensure that people are not hesitant to go to the hospital in order to get other things other than assisted suicide dealt with. Most of my amendments come out of that desire.
On May 10th, 2016. See this statement in context.