Thanks, MP Moore.
Yes, we are of course of that opinion, and we feel very strongly that the only way to make this bill not discriminatory is to keep it to end of life. Anybody who is at end of life and is suffering intolerably has access.
When you open it up and make it based on the grounds of things like disability—this is already a very vulnerable population in our society today that experiences a tremendous amount of systemic ableism in the health care system already, and we've seen that pervasively throughout the COVID-19 pandemic in everything from triage protocols to deprioritizing their lives, and the list goes on—we're on a very dangerous slippery slope.
I think we have to stop, hit the pause button and really focus, particularly on a consultation with the disability community. We are speaking. We are trying to speak. We are united, but our voices are getting drowned out by people who do not experience the systemic marginalization, the poverty and the very difficult lack of support in life circumstances that people with disabilities experience, which leads them into situations where either MAID is promoted to them or they feel it is their only option.
Yet—