Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses.
I'll address my first question to either Dr. Boyle or Professor Chochinov. At our last meeting, we heard compelling and disturbing testimony from Roger Foley, who talked about the fact that physician-assisted dying was specifically brought up to him without his initiating it, and that he faced considerable pressure and coercion from health care professionals.
In your brief, you make note of that concern, and you state expressly that “health care professionals should not initiate” such a conversation. Why do you believe that this should not occur? Further to that, could you speak to how the Australian state of Victoria has responded legislatively, and would you support a similar safeguard to be legislatively introduced when we consider amendments to Bill C-7?