Thank you.
Thank you, Madam Chair, for the question.
First, to touch on what you were asking about that case with negligence, possible discrimination and a longer admission than they wanted or anticipated, I think it raises a really problematic issue. Abby Hoffman came to this committee and said that there are no cases, or hardly any cases, of non-compliance. It means that Health Canada is not able to capture the data correctly for safety and monitoring, and that really concerns me.
The second thing, about the expert panel—I reviewed the expert panel—is that it was actually for MAID for mental illness as a sole condition. The expert panel is very interesting. First of all, they never answered the question, “Can this be done for mental illness?”, considering that we have a lot of evidence that we have no prognosticators to know for sure if someone is irremediable—actually meeting the eligibility criteria for MAID—and if this is really a medical procedure.
Secondly, they offer 19 cautions. There are 19 things that they consider to be very dangerous—