Six minutes is not much time for an issue that is so sensitive.
Minister, you have given me an opportunity and I am taking it. Unlike you, I do not believe that what you have tabled will allow us to do more in the field of mental health; nor do I not believe that this will help us to take care of our fellow citizens over the next 10 years.
We have to take note of the meaning of mental health in this debate. Experts have told us that we should stop talking about mental illness because this is not a clinical term. We should refer to mental disorders. If we are going to agree on this issue, we should adopt the terms used by the experts.
Experts have indicated in their final report that practice standards need to be established in the case of mental disorders.
In a letter sent to committee members, the deputy minister of Health stated that a working group had been created to work on practice standards for medical assistance in dying. This group is made up of people with clinical expertise. Who are they?