Thank you.
We definitely know of cases where patients have requested MAID because of lack of access to palliative care. This might well be because of language barriers, or it might be because of an inability to articulate what they would like. They're not necessarily health literate.
We also have some special and vulnerable populations. They're not like the people in this room, who are well educated, articulate and capable of essentially informing what they want and being in control of what they want. At the other end of the spectrum, we have vulnerable groups who have difficulties understanding the health care landscape.
If we have difficulty understanding health care, then it is not surprising that these people would have difficulty understanding it, let alone MAID. We really want to be careful about making sure that the information we provide is accessible to everybody, whether that means language issues or access for people living in rural and remote communities who don't have access to the resources and care that they need. There are a lot of complicated issues at play here that we really don't have a good grip on.