Thank you very much, Madam Chair, and thank you, honourable ministers, for being here and for your presentations.
Minister Lametti, you stated that the legislation excludes sole mental illness. It is true that the legislation does provide that mental illness is not considered an illness, disease or disability. However, I would note that with regard to the criteria, physical or psychological suffering is the test.
Could you address the concern about ambiguity, in that when you remove “reasonably foreseeable” and leave “psychological suffering”, arguably the legislation does in fact provide for, or could open the door to, mental illness?