Thanks very much, Mr. Kelloway, for reminding us of Audrey Parker's courage.
As you know, she was in the final stages of terminal cancer. She wanted to spend one last Christmas with her family, but because of the regime currently in place, she was very fearful that she would lose the ability to finally consent to the procedure and didn't want to continue to live in her situation after that, so she took MAID before being able to spend that final time with her family. It was a gut-wrenching set of facts and it resonated across the country. In English and in French there was an outpouring of support for Audrey Parker and for someone's ability to give advance consent, or waiving final consent, as we have framed it in this legislation.
To meet the Audrey Parker example where a death is reasonably foreseeable, when someone has been assessed and approved and they've made an arrangement with their MAID practitioner to waive final consent if they do lose capacity at the end, then the MAID practitioner can go through with it.
The other thing that was happening was that people weren't taking their pain medication at the end, for fear of losing that final capacity.
Again, all we're doing here is alleviating suffering. There is wide consensus and widespread support across Canada for this particular amendment to be added now.