Michael Cooper at the Justice and Human Rights Committee

I guess the upper concern, just to follow up on that, is that the legislation provides for mental illness being excluded, but there is no definition of mental illness. There is no definition of mental illness anywhere, in fact, in the Criminal Code. It leaves practitioners in an arguably difficult position to understand and interpret the legislation correctly when you strike down the “reasonably foreseeable” criterion, which did make it very clear that psychological suffering or some form of mental illness could never, or should never, constitute a basis on which the procedure could be carried out.