Thank you, Senator.
It is true that there are a few psychiatrists who express exactly those views. They are certainly not the majority. The working group of the Canadian Psychiatric Association did not express that.
Psychiatrists make this determination every day of their practice around suicidality, as I said earlier, in communities, emergency departments and hospitals. It's an essential part of being a psychiatrist to assess suicidal risk.
I submit that a request for MAID that is carefully considered and meets the safeguards is not the same as suicide.