Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thanks to the witnesses for their testimony, which will help us in our deliberations.
I'll go to you first, Mr. Adair.
I want to thank you because your association is important. It shocks the collective imagination when someone in his or her twenties suddenly suffers a spinal cord injury. It causes a radical change to that person's life.
The handicap is obviously a social one, but the disability is individual. Where there's an individual disability, whatever it may be, the social handicap must made as insignificant as possible. It's a constant struggle, and you strive to make these disabilities less and less debilitating. However, I imagine it's still a shock.
You'd like to have stronger safeguards. I understand that. As a health professional, do you think the safeguard of avoiding any discussion of MAID with the patient immediately following the shock would be helpful to you and your patients?