Madam Chair, I think it's important to point out that Bill C-14 and Bill C-7 are very clear about protecting, respecting and supporting conscience rights, and certainly our organization is very strongly in support of that, but when people do not follow professional guidelines to do effective referrals, we're finding obstruction of access to care. What's happening is that patients and families are coming to us very late on, and that's where we get into the problem with the 10-day waiting and the loss of capacity. They come to us in a much more urgent situation.
Many of our patients are socially isolated. They may have been hospitalized for weeks. They may not have social friends or even the technical abilities to find access to care, and they are absolutely reliant on their caregivers to provide that information and provide a way for them to access better information and access to care. Without that possibility, they are simply locked out of this.