Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
It's good to be back on the justice committee. I don't think I've been since the 42nd Parliament.
Thank you, Minister Lametti, for being here today.
I just want to go back to the Bill C-7 conversation you had with Mr. Moore. I was in the House serving with you at that time. We had the third reading of Bill C-7 on December 10, 2020, so the version we sent to the Senate was in line with your charter statement. Mental disorder still would not have qualified for medical assistance in dying.
The Senate went through the bill fairly quickly. They were able to get to their third reading vote by February 17, 2021, so in a little over two months. They reported it back to us with that amendment.
I just want to narrow it down. You're telling us that in that two-month period, that's when you converted your thoughts on this. I just want to know your thought process. You were fine with the version we sent to the Senate, but then when they sent it back, just in that space of two months, you had a conversion and accepted what they had done to the bill.
I believe they inserted that amendment not at the committee stage but at the report stage of the bill. It was done from the floor of the Senate.