I'll make one last point to try to convince Mr. Garrison, because the amendment covers everything.
It isn't complicated. A person whose prognosis is 15 months doesn't request medical assistance in dying. It doesn't exist. If they make the request, the period between the first assessment and the provision of medical assistance in dying set out in the bill is 90 days. We aren't changing anything. We're simply specifying that a different safeguard exists.
Most people who die of terminal cancer don't request medical assistance in dying 12 months beforehand. If they do, they can make advance request arrangements and take the proper steps to be ready when the request comes up. That way, the doctor wouldn't need to wait 10 days and to ask the patient to provide consent again.
The concern that a patient could be harmed comes from a misunderstanding of the amendment. Doctors clearly need it. They make prognoses every day to justify their practice. Otherwise, try to prove to me that death is reasonably foreseeable and tell me on what basis. Without this amendment, no prognosis would be required. This could complicate matters. It could be related to the arbitrary discretion of the medical practitioner. By including this in the bill, no one is harmed. In everyday life, in practice, no one wants to die early. If, after a diagnosis, a patient begins to experience suicidal tendencies, we know very well that they'll be treated.
In everyday life, people must prepare for their final exit. Palliative care is comprehensive support until death.
I don't know why you're resisting and thinking that patients will be harmed, when in fact the opposite is true.