Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
My questions are for Dr. Gupta.
Dr. Gupta, you said we're ready with respect to MAID and mental illness. I would submit that's tough to accept, given what we've heard in the previous hour about how there's no consensus among psychiatrists. Only 2% of psychiatrists have signed up for the curriculum program, and there aren't enough resources, but you say we're ready. Are we, really?
I would submit that the heart of the issue is the question of irremediability—whether someone can get better and whether that can be accurately predicted. As you will recall, on page 40 of the expert report issued by the panel you chaired, it states that:
There is limited knowledge about the long-term prognosis for many conditions, and it is difficult, if not impossible, for clinicians to make accurate predictions about the future for an individual patient. The evolution of an individual’s mental disorder cannot be predicted as it can for certain types of cancers.
That report was issued in May 2022. Has anything changed since May 2022 with respect to that conclusion?