Okay.
In a brief submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs in February 2021, Sheppard and Jones of McGill addressed the access to MAID. They wrote:
The express exclusion of persons with mental illnesses undermines substantive equality by reinforcing and perpetuating stereotypes about persons with mental illnesses and [thus] disadvantaging them.
I'd like your thoughts on that statement in terms of charter rights.
As another thought, we talked about treatment being unacceptable to people with a sole mental illness and choosing not to accept it. Are there instances in other conditions, such as cancer treatment or pain treatment, where people will say, “No, I've gone through all these treatments and there may be another treatment possible. Who knows, it may work or it may not work. It may be experimental, and I just do not want to have that.” Cancer patients can say they do not want to have that treatment.
I'd like to keep it in the context of what else happens in that instance.