Thank you, Mr. Chair.
This amendment would add the words: “recommends and, in the event of serious breaches of these provisions, providing for the possibility of imposing a moratorium”.
This comes out of having followed how similar legislation has played out in the Netherlands, just in my family's experience, essentially. Initially they brought in very similar legislation, and now we are hearing reports of several hundred people a year who are being euthanized without explicit consent.
I would say that if in Canada we are going to have one person lose their life without consent, that would be one too many. What I would like, after this review has been done, if there have been significant breaches and if maybe they find that there was a lack of consent in certain cases, is that they would impose a moratorium and therefore give them time to write up new law or change the law to ensure that we are getting consent in every case. This just allows the committee to impose a moratorium.