Thank you very much, Madam Co-Chair.
I just want to thank both Ms. Nichols and Ms. Romaire for different but very compelling testimony.
What is very apparent, as you said, is that there is a need for clear safeguards with actual national standards that can be kept across the country so that provinces don't make up their own. I think that is what we are hearing from a lot of people. We don't have those right now, and provinces may or may not, as Ms. Romaire is telling us. In Alberta, even though she was eligible, she couldn't get palliative care. She couldn't get anything she needed.
I agree with you and I want to thank you both, because the tragedy of actually being able to have MAID or of not wanting MAID.... There really need to be clearly defined guidelines and clear patterns of practice that are decided on across the country and not locally by provinces.
I wonder, Mrs. and Mr. Nichols, if you could answer me. You are getting nothing from the college of physicians in B.C., no information.