Thank you, Mr. Joint Chair.
My questions are for Dr. Stewart. I'll ask them all together and you can answer.
We've heard a lot of people say at this committee that MAID is not suicide, and it is clearly important to differentiate MAID from suicide. This is really at the heart of this issue. In the spring, psychiatrists told this committee that MAID for sole mental disorder blurs the line between suicide prevention and suicide assistance.
Given the uncertainty around determining irremediability in the case of sole mental illness, how can this line be defined? How do we distinguish between intolerable suffering and suicidality?
What additional safeguards do you think are necessary to ensure that the MAID regime does not provide assisted suicide?