Madam Chair, I just wanted to point out that one of the important impacts of Bill C-7 with respect to terminally ill patients whose death is inevitable and imminent is to prevent people from suffering for 10 days simply because there is uncertainty about what they want. Once their intentions are clear, they ought not to be left to suffer.
People in the field might sometimes believe that the person could live for another 10 days, but that it would be 10 days of delirium, agony and extreme suffering of the kind no one would want for their loved ones. Allowing this to happen is not a matter for reflection. It removes the burden of suffering from the patient.