CPC-1 is being moved because of some of the significant testimony we heard from health care providers. I reference a letter that was sent to committee members that was signed by, I think, upwards of 900 health care providers, many of whom are concerned about the relationship between a patient and their doctor, which is the ultimate trust relationship. There's no more important relationship, certainly, that's not a family relationship, than the relationship between a patient and their doctor.
Many doctors, with this significant expansion to the assisted dying regime, have raised with us their concerns about the provision of assisted dying as it relates to them in their profession. These are hard-working individuals who help make our community and our society better. They help to heal people. That's what they do. That's what they want to do, but they're concerned about the impact of this legislation on their ability to do that, and principally on the relationship they have with their patients.
This amendment, CPC-1, would provide for conscience protections for physicians as it relates to this expanded assisted dying regime.