Yes, it does.
My concern is along the same lines as Mr. Moore's.
We also heard testimony from Taylor. She's a young woman in her twenties. She ended up being diagnosed as having pneumonia. The normal course of treatment for that would be oxygen, yet the practitioner was discussing MAID with her rather than giving her the oxygen she needed for her pneumonia. In any other normal circumstances, a young woman presenting herself to emergency in her twenties would not have to go through all that before she was given oxygen for something like pneumonia.
Mr. Foley's testimony was very compelling as well, but in some ways I was more shocked by what Taylor had to say. She was someone who certainly did not want to enter into the discussion at all. She wanted treatment for her current situation and eventually got it.
I'm very concerned about there being no onus on any practitioner in the sense that.... I don't think they should bring it up. It should be patient-initiated. If it's patient-initiated, then there are rules around the form of the conversation and the nature of that engagement. When someone is coming in to the care of caregivers in the health system for something totally unrelated, yet is being judged by that practitioner as someone who maybe should just end their life, I find that very difficult.
This is not an amendment I could support for that reason.