Perfect. I'm going to take the first opportunity to answer it. Thank you for the question.
Madam Chair, I would like to point out what I'm sure is clear among most of our members, which is that mental health as a sole underlying condition is not explicitly prohibited under Bill C-14. In fact, there have been cases in this country of people with mental health illness as the only underlying condition going ahead, qualifying for and proceeding with MAID.
That's not commonly achievable with naturally foreseeable death and we don't see it very often. It is obviously much more common for us to have already seen patients with both mental health illnesses and physical illnesses applying for and being found eligible for MAID and proceeding.
Of course, there are many people.... In that situation, it's up to the assessors and the providers to do the best job possible to ensure that capacity is still present. Mental capacity is always presumed to be present, unless it isn't. It's not uncommon in that situation for physicians and clinicians—who assess capacity in our patients all the time, every day in our offices, for all medical treatments and surgical interventions—to be able to distinguish between the two.