Thank you for the question.
I should say that we were not mandated to discuss the rationale for legalization. Jersey put forward two options for legalization. One was a terminal illness diagnosis, kind of styled track one but narrower than in the Canadian context. The second one was a very broad track, which compares with the Canadian track two. I was not completely surprised, but I was happily surprised, to see that my two colleagues, who actually are for the legalization of assisted dying in some form, agreed, looking at the evidence, that the Canadian model was not the approach they should be taking.
We actually recommended against an open-ended access to MAID for unbearable suffering. Psychiatric MAID is explicitly excluded, as it is in most jurisdictions around the world, or in many jurisdictions around the world that have legalized some form of assisted dying. Simply, this is also because most jurisdictions limit access to MAID or euthanasia or assisted suicide in the end-of-life context to people who have a terminal illness diagnosis, where mental illness would not fulfill the criteria of a clearly identifiable survival prognosis or terminal illness prognosis.