Thank you.
My first question is for you, Dr. Rajji. In your presentation to committee on November 5, 2020, you supported a delay in implementing MAID for mental illness due to the issue of irremediability not having been resolved. You stated that irremediability is “an objective determination that must be based on the best medical evidence available”. Then you shared your concern that there were “no established criteria that define if and when a mental illness should be considered irremediable”. You also suggested that without any agreed-upon objective criteria, “any determination that a person has an irremediable mental illness would be inherently subjective and therefore arbitrary”.
Has any of that changed in the intervening three and a half years?