I'm pleased to be moving this. It's the work of Mr. Fraser and Mr. Cooper, as well, and it's an objective that we tried to achieve in two phases.
The first was Mr. Fraser's amendment that was accepted for greater certainty, a clause that was added to the bill itself that there was no compulsion to provide or assist in providing medical aid in dying. This would do that by simply acknowledging that everyone has freedom of conscience and religion guaranteed under the charter: “Whereas nothing in this enactment affects the guarantee of freedom of conscience and religion”. That was an objective we worked out together in this language in order to achieve a clear statement that nothing in the work we're doing would affect a person's conscience rights, which I want to stress was something the Supreme Court itself in Carter emphasized.