Thanks very much, Mr. Moore, for that question. It's an important one.
It was a difficult decision. We did hear various voices, including voices from the disability community.
We took the decision, put quite simply, to reduce suffering. It was hard to see cases like those of Nicole Gladu and Jean Truchon, and Julia Lamb out west, and not see the suffering they were going through, with no recourse to medical assistance in dying that other Canadians had.
When the legislation was passed, there were concerns raised about whether the proposed regime was in conformity with the charter, and in particular the Carter decision.
Given the very positive experience with MAID that Canadians have had since 2016 and the real moving of the goal posts that had occurred from 2016 to 2019, we felt that we could reduce the suffering of Canadians by moving simply to implement the Superior Court decision, without waiting for further suffering, appeals and that sort of thing, and also to meet the very legitimate concerns raised by the disability community about valuing the dignity of life. We think we've done that in this bill.