Yes. The offence has not been found to be unconstitutional, but nonetheless, the offence of administering a noxious substance to a person is in law potentially an offence that could be charged, where a physician or nurse practitioner administers a substance to a person within the meaning of medical assistance in dying.
Because it's an offence that could technically be committed in law when a physician engages in medical assistance in dying, the exemptions were put into this offence as well, just to ensure that there was not some.... We went through the Criminal Code to ensure there weren't other offences that might be committed for which the exemptions also had to be made available. This is the one that we identified.