Thank you for the opportunity to clarify.
What I said was that the comparison was with the existential threat to disabled people. I did not compare what we're doing to what the Nazis did. I compared the threat to the lives of disabled people. You're quite right that they're not comparable and I'm certainly not accusing our government of pursuing the same intentions.
What I was saying was that the outcome can have a similar effect and what we've heard from Dr. Janz and the other stories—there was another story in the paper yesterday—is that it's not as you described in all circumstances that people are being moved towards MAID. They're going to MAID out of despair, not that their suffering can be relieved with proper housing or proper supports and that's the existential threat that I'm concerned about.
Just to clarify, I was not comparing the processes or the motivations, I was comparing the outcome, if you like, and the threat level to people with disabilities and I stand by that. If someone can tell me another point in history when there has been this level of threat to the lives of people with disabilities I will happily retract that statement.
Thank you for the chance to clarify that.