The only thing that changed was the timing of when. I had always believed—as I have said to my honourable colleagues from the Conservative Party—that we would get to this point and that we were required to get to this point; that people with mental illness and mental disorders were suffering; that people with mental disorders had the capacity to ask for medical assistance in dying, as any other Canadian did; and that the courts would eventually force us there.
The only thing that changed was whether we—in 2021, as originally framed—not put the committee work in the bill and do the expert committee work necessary to get it to a point and then pass a law, or do we accept the Senate's reversal of that, which is to say we're going to put this in with a sunset clause in order to force ourselves to do the committee work within what one would argue is the same time period—