The state of palliative care is that there's not good access to palliative care. I don't have the actual statistics, but I know that here in Newfoundland, for example, we do not have a palliative care specialist.
Before we go and legalize this, we have to make sure that we have appropriate access to these services, specifically palliative care, and we have very good technology now so that children should not endure intolerable physical suffering. I have seen, through my clinical practice and also personally—I had a nephew die of a congenital cardiac defect—that a lot of the suffering these families are enduring is because they're frustrated that there's a lack of access to care. They're not receiving the appropriate treatment. There are long wait times. We need to address these before we move ahead with this legislation. We need to make sure that everybody has equality and, specifically here in Newfoundland, we deal a lot with the indigenous population. There are no services in Labrador. They have to fly down for all of their pediatric services, so this is a problem we need to address before we move forward with this legislation.