Thank you, Madam Chair.
I would like to thank our witnesses. It is always nice to hear your testimony, which helps us a lot in moving ahead on this issue.
I would first like to address Dr. Gauthier.
Dr. Gauthier, I want to thank you for your presentation. It is the shortest one I have heard since I began sitting on this committee, and yet it was full of information. As a legislator, I find your comments particularly useful in connection with advance requests for medical assistance in dying, a subject that we will be addressing with this second group of witnesses.
If I understood correctly, you support the idea of opening up medical assistance in dying to advance requests. You specialize in Alzheimer disease. You talked about the various stages that can be determined and based on which medical assistance in dying could be given.
My question is twofold.
At what point do you think a person can make an advance request? You talked about patients or people you know who are afraid of being struck by that disease because members of their family suffer from it.
To summarize, do you support advance requests by persons who do not have symptoms of Alzheimer disease?