We have heard, throughout the witness testimony at the committee last week, about the need for a proper palliative care system here in Canada. We have heard that most Canadians don't have access to the standard of palliative care that one would expect they should and are entitled to have.
This government is committed to improving our palliative care system and has committed $3 billion to that end. We would like to make sure that money is employed properly. What better way is there to do that than to say we are going to have a review at the same time as a report is established here? It is going to be like a report card to see if the Liberal government has done a good job in doing what they have said they are going to do.
As we have heard from witness testimony here last week, when there are good palliative care options, the request and the need for physician-assisted suicide are greatly diminished. I think that should be the objective of all of us around this table—not to see if we can expand this particular exemption, but to see if we can actually minimize it.
We should get back to the point where Parliament respects the sanctity of life, which is what the Supreme Court said we should do. So far, we have not shown a whole lot of respect for life around this table, and certainly not the sanctity of it. I think a review of our palliative care system at that time would move towards that.