People with disabilities are not vulnerable; they are made vulnerable. They are put in situations of vulnerability based on the socio-economic...and all the things we have already talked about, so I won't repeat that again.
I think the question you're asking me is whether or not there are some people with disabilities who want to be able to choose whether or not they can make a decision about dying. I'm not trying to infantilize anyone. What we're talking about here is that we have two tracks. We have a track for people at end of life who are suffering intolerably and whose lives are going to be finished soon, and they get to choose the timing, etc., but we have this other track that has pigeonholed one particular group of people. Anybody else in the country, by virtue of being any other marginalized population—indigenous, racialized or whatever—who says they are suffering intolerably from factors that are external to their personal characteristics isn't getting offered death. We're giving them support to live good lives.
That's the point I am making here. It's that we are more marginalizing and more devaluing and facing people.... We're basically telling people with disabilities that having a disability is a fate worse than death.
We're not just getting people asking for MAID. We are having people with disabilities constantly being offered MAID now as a health care choice. They show up in the health care system with a health care issue that is not terminal and they are living in difficult conditions. We have story after story of people being offered MAID as a solution to their health care situation.