First, in terms of B.C. legislation, I don't know every province's variations. I do believe that decisions to get treatment are treated differently in law than decisions that result in end of life. For example, in the situation you mentioned, if a parent disagreed with the assessment that the person was mature enough to make the decision or the parent disagreed with the decision to end treatment, I believe this would be a litigated matter. I believe the official guardian has to be involved when we're talking about treatments that result in end of life.
I don't think MAID would be treated the same way under any province's legislation. It's not a medical treatment. It's actually a treatment to end life.
As for the question of whether we should do this for children who experience this kind of pain, I think we clearly have an inability to distinguish between track one and track two. Once we allow further extensions of track one, we know for sure that these will extend to track two and that we cannot contain them. For example, in Carter, the Supreme Court said that its decision did not extend to mental illness, yet here we are. We've gone ahead and done exactly what the Supreme Court of Canada cautioned against.