Thank you so much.
I'll answer the second question first, because I don't think there's any evidence as it specifically relates to medical assistance in dying. However, there is good evidence as it relates to many other life-challenging decisions. The number of significant disagreements between parents and children is small, not so small necessarily in some of the issues that relate to, for example, abortion, where there are very strong ethical or religious viewpoints that may differ between the two. In terms of health care, not a large number of individuals have reported those kinds of strong disagreements. Of course, because MAID is not illegal in Canada, that really has not been an issue with respect to medical assistance in dying for mature minors.
With respect to the lessons from other jurisdictions, certainly Belgium and Netherlands are more restrictive in what would qualify than what I would support if it were my decision to make. I also think that it's problematic for boards to become involved unless absolutely necessary in these kinds of situations. Consequently, the better approach, again, is to rely upon the judgment of the medical professionals who are required to make these decisions following the guidance of the regulatory bodies and the expectations for establishing informed consent with respect to the entirety of the practices they engage in, which may include medical assistance in dying.
With regard to somebody in crisis, if it is a temporary situation that may pass, I completely agree that the state of mind during that period of time, which is likely to be different later, would not qualify somebody for medical assistance in dying. If, indeed, that is a concern, one of the things that one could possibly look to is the cooling off period, or the period of time that's required between the first request and when medical assistance in dying might be administered, as is the case for individuals who do not have a reasonably foreseeable death under the current legislation.