Okay. Thank you.
As outlined in the report by the Council of Canadian Academies on advance requests, “[advance directives] may include the advance consent to, or refusal of, specific treatments ... such as foregoing the use of blood and blood products ... resuscitation in the event of cardiac or respiratory arrest, or refusing artificial nutrition and hydration”. It is already possible to give advance directives. They are regulated and applied in Quebec and the provinces. However, advance requests are only for MAID. In this regard, the report states that “a legal regime for ARs for MAID, established in federal criminal legislation, would form one part of the regulatory picture in Canada; practical implementation would depend on provincial and territorial legislation, as well as professional regulatory schemes”.
Given that people are already used to dealing with advance requests, would expanding MAID to include advance requests pose much fewer practice and implementation issues?
The question is for Mr. Potter.