You feel as though you have one hand behind your back if you can't raise certain issues. We talk to patients, for example, about why they would refuse cancer treatment that could cure them. Some people don't go along with the decisions we wish they would go along with.
I can assure you that in dealing with a lot of nurses across the country, those of sound mind have not run into any who want to rush into any situation and introduce this. What we heard from experts doing this was that we felt we couldn't have a full conversation. We couldn't even raise this issue.
Eighty-six percent of Canadians in the polls say they want to talk about it. They want the legislation there. We have talked about it for 30 years. The public is not informed on the details, but they are certainly ready to have these conversations, yet we're telling Nurse Betty with a master's degree that she can't talk about it. We have to fix that.