One thing I felt strongly about is the fact that mental health legislation across Canada varies. In Canada, our mental health legislation allows for people to be legally held against their will and treated because of their illness. I think this needs to be looked at. I understand that you're the federal government, but I believe that, if the intention is to move forward with MAID as a treatment for mental illness, we really need to, as a country, look into the mental health legislation to ensure that the coercive situations and behaviours implied in the legislation are dealt with. We are people, and we need to be treated as such. We need to have laws that protect us, not laws that harm us.
I repeatedly raised concerns about MAID in this context, and I was not at all satisfied with the answers I received. There was really no space for any discussion about it.