Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you for the question.
Any group of persons who have raised concerns about whether there are adequate safeguards, how a law is being implemented and practised, are certainly to be taken seriously, and they are certainly to be considered valid and to be explored.
I think the tension we have with medical assistance in dying is that we have identifiable groups of people who may have characteristics of vulnerability or not have characteristics of vulnerability, but we also have individuals who are requesting assistance in dying, and they have their own characteristics of their own lives and their own conditions.
I think one of the difficulties we run into is how we make considerations and safeguards that take into consideration the vulnerabilities of groups while also respecting the lived experience and autonomy of individuals.