Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you again to all of the witnesses. There has been very informed and relevant testimony today. It raises grave concerns with me about the sufficiency of the amount of time the government has put forward to deal with this legislation. I feel that we should be having more meetings of this committee because we're hearing new perspectives now that we haven't heard in previous testimony.
It's been put out there that there's been some kind of unanimity and great support among the medical community, but, Dr. Frazee, we've seen a letter signed by almost 800 doctors who have expressed serious concerns about how Bill C-7 opens up the medical assistance in dying regime in Canada. I want you to comment specifically on something.
Bill C-14 had a number of safeguards in it. After the Truchon decision, the government responded with Bill C-7, but in doing so, it has stripped out a number of safeguards that it didn't have to: the 10-day reflection period, the requirement that there be two witnesses—things that could provide an element of safeguard for those who are engaged in this process. I'd like your comments on that, because I think it's greatly troubling when we see safeguards that were put in place very recently and then, at the first instance, we're stripping them away.