Thank you, Madam Chair.
I thank the witnesses for being here, including those from the first panel, if they are still watching us. It has been really enlightening.
I will address you first, Dr. Roy. The data that we have in the annual reports on medical assistance in dying for the last three years is quite telling in terms of the proportion of people who request medical assistance in dying versus those who request palliative care. What was feared does not seem to be happening—that is, 82% or 83% of the people who requested medical assistance in dying were receiving palliative care. They decided to leave of their own free will, with medical assistance in dying. We also know from the same data that 89% of those who chose not to use palliative care had access to it.
You have been working in palliative care for 22 years. Can you tell us what explains why someone would want to receive medical assistance in dying without necessarily wanting to use palliative care?