Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
In terms of the notion of track one and injecting the expert requirement into track one, what we have is a situation around the country where health care providers have been exercising a great deal of judgment in delivering MAID. That's certainly what we heard in the consultations that took place in January and February. In cases where the medical team surrounding the patient doesn't have the necessary expertise in the patient's condition to do a comprehensive assessment, providers are already consulting experts as part of good medical practice, and we believe that they will continue to do so.
What we've done here is that we've reduced the barriers to accessing MAID for people who are reasonably foreseeable, but have enhanced safeguards for those who are on track two, because, by definition, their death is not as imminent or as foreseeable. Adding an additional issue of attaching an expert requirement here for the group that is in track one would not enhance safeguards—because the safeguards are already doing the work they need to do—but would in fact act as a new barrier for access. On that basis, I will be opposing this amendment.
Thank you.