Thank you, Madam Co-Chair. Thank you to all of our witnesses for being with us today.
Dr. Nicolini, I'd like to start with you. I was taking notes during your opening statement and your remarks on the difficulties with establishing incurability and irremediability, and also the need for guidelines for suicide prevention, etc. I think no one would disagree with you on that.
With the way our Criminal Code is currently written, if you look at medical assistance in dying and the definition of a grievous and irremediable medical condition, you see that it does mention that it has to be a serious and incurable illness. It also does mention that there has to be an advanced state of irreversible decline. Paragraph 241.2(2)(c) also mentions that the condition has to be intolerable and also that it cannot be relieved under conditions that they consider acceptable.
There might be some potential conflict between those paragraphs because you may, hypothetically, come up with a treatment, but the patient may find that the treatment is not an acceptable one and may not believe that it can relieve their conditions properly. Do you have some thoughts?
I'm probably asking you the same question in a different form, but can you expand on that apparent conflict?