Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
One of the reasons I'm very confident that there's public support for Bill C-7 is that it maintains a very high bar for accessing medical assistance in dying. A person seeking MAID must be suffering from an incurable condition, must be in an irreversible decline and must face intolerable suffering.
Some, however, who I think oppose the concept of medical assistance in dying, have been using some catchy phrases. I don't think they are designed to promote real debate about the issues, but I would like to give one of the ministers a chance to respond to those who are talking about Bill C-7 creating “death on demand” or creating “same-day dying”. I do not believe the bill does this, but I think we need to address the attempt to distort the bill.