Thank you.
Thank you for being here.
You noted that adequate funding is a necessary safeguard for MAID MD-SUMC and for both social supports and assessors. For clarity, does that mean that MAID should not be available to someone who has not been able to access treatment due to a lack of funding?
I ask this because we've heard at this committee there are people on five-year-long waiting lists for specialized treatment, so funding is a key issue, but what do we do in that case? If that's not the case, how is funding a safeguard, and would we require a change in legislation in order to offer MAID to those who are waiting for treatment? There are a lot of complexities.