Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'm sitting with the friendly company over here.
This amendment is to deal with doctors financially benefiting from providing assistance in dying or assisted suicide or euthanasia, however you want to term it.
We really felt that if this service is to be provided it should be provided out of purely altruistic motives. Therefore, we felt that there should be no material benefit for performing this act of killing somebody, seeing as it is such a profound act.
We felt if this act is indeed driven out of altruistic motive there should be only altruistic motive as the motive.
Thank you for the opportunity to speak to it. That's my—