Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My question is for Ms. Downie and Ms. Voisin.
Generally speaking, people are uneasy, even those around the table. There seems to be a sense that making MAID available to people with mental health issues is like having an open bar that everyone can take advantage of.
However, one of the witnesses we heard from was a psychiatrist who said that she had seen only three patients in her 35‑year career who would be eligible for MAID, given the serious criteria for assessing chronicity, long-term medications and so forth.
That means that a person in crisis could not receive MAID, and two other witnesses confirmed that.
You said that there weren't enough clinicians to do the assessments. Is that going to be a problem? If it takes a clinician 35 years to identify three eligible patients, does that mean we would need 100 psychiatrists?
The floor is yours.