What we're proposing to do in PV-6 is make changes after line 23 on page 6, inserting essentially a new section altogether. If people are looking for where it inserts, it's a standalone after paragraph (e). It is, as you can see, set out to ensure that:
If the person meets all of the criteria as set out in subsection 2 also suffers from a cognitive impairment or psychological condition, the person's capacity to provide informed consent has been assessed by a regulated health care professional whose scope of practice includes the assessment of such impairment or condition.
As members of the committee may recall, this is based on a recommendation from the Canadian Psychological Association. The concern was that if someone has both a cognitive psychological and physical condition, that makes it difficult to assess their capacity to give consent. They shouldn't be excluded from this framework, but should have the specific mental health professional who has competence in that field.
Just to underscore part of their evidence, while I have time:
The assessment of a person's capacity to give informed consent particularly when that person has a concomitant psychological or cognitive disorder must be left to those regulated health professionals with the training and expertise to undertake these kinds of complex assessments.
My amendment seeks to address that concern of those health care professionals.