Thank you, Mr. Chair, for your graciousness. I guess it's probably part of being new here that this whole inadmissibility thing is coming up more often, but I do thank you for your consideration regardless.
This amendment came from...as I went through the bill, there seemed to be no way for an outside person to say.... This is to prevent doctor shopping, essentially. If we have someone who is depressed and wants to die, my concern is that if a doctor said, “No, you're just depressed, we need to get you some help”, the person can move away from that doctor and move to the next doctor, say, “Can you provide me with assisted suicide?”, and find two other doctors. That first doctor may be sitting there, wringing his hands, and saying, “This person's just depressed. We need to get them help.” This would give the first doctor the ability to put a stop to that particular case and to say, “Hey, I don't think we're looking at all the information. Can we go before a judge to see if this is where I can present, perhaps, in a different setting?” That's what this comes out of.
We might lose one life without consent, that's what I'm trying to go after.