Dr. Gaind, I'll ask you a question that I asked one of the witnesses in the first hour's panel.
I've been on this committee from the beginning. What I've struggled with is recognizing the fact that individuals have rights, have agency, have capacity. Those are constitutionally protected rights. However, also, as a society, we have a duty to protect the most vulnerable. I'm indirectly alluding to the constitutional arguments about this: the fact that, yes, we do have rights and freedoms but that those rights and freedoms can be subject to a section 1 analysis, which can place reasonable limits on them.
My question to you as a physician, a psychiatrist with your years of experience on this specific subject, is this: How have you personally approached trying to reconcile the rights of individuals with their agency, their capacity, their ability, to make decisions for their own body versus our collective rights to defend the most vulnerable?