Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I am happy to be taking the floor after my colleague Mr. MacGregor because his question is the same as one of mine.
It is increasingly noticeable that the public and all professionals are receiving a lot of information about the implementation of the medical assistance in dying program. However, when I was practising medicine, I noticed that the population knew nothing about palliative care. People who were offered palliative care were resistant to it.
Today, palliative care is still contrasted with medical assistance in dying. What could be done to educate the public about what palliative care is, as is done for medical assistance in dying?
How could provincial colleges of physicians better educate professionals about palliative care, so that they can advise people about either option when the time comes?
Dr. Roy, has the Collège des médecins du Québec ever thought about that?