For the number of cases, the answer is that I don't know. When I filed through the Access to Information Act, I was told after one year that it's too private to answer. The lack of accountability and oversight is so significant that we cannot access any reliable information on this issue. That's how serious the matter is.
The Office of the Correctional Investigator reports three cases of MAID somewhere two years ago, but we don't know how many people asked.
The procedure itself basically says that the individual has to apply and is assessed by the prison physician, so it's not an independent assessor; it's somebody who works in the prison system. If the prison physician says that the person is eligible for MAID, then they would be seen by a second assessor, who should be somebody independent in the community. If the prison physician says they are not eligible, the assessment ends there, which, to my understanding, is quite different from what happens in the community.
That is briefly the process itself. If the individual receives MAID, again, the matter ends there. Normally, CSC has an obligation to conduct reviews of all the deaths that occurred in prison, natural or not natural, and obviously the causes that led there. They are exempted by legislation to do so in cases of MAID, which, of course, is a significant problem in terms of oversight and in terms of the lack of safeguards for how these assessments are done, what else is being made available and what the alternatives are. Right now, as it stands, it's particularly problematic, as I said, even leaving aside the discussion of lack of release mechanisms.