Thank you, Madam Co-Chair.
We heard from Dr. Gallagher in her opening statement that people are poor at anticipating what future medical conditions are like. Many witnesses have talked about the difficulty in determining consent.
Dr. Thorpe, our committee hasn't yet had your submission distributed to us, but we will look forward to reading it in detail. I appreciate your submitting it to our committee.
In your opening remarks, you urged our committee to really think very clearly about the guidelines that need to be set up, because people change and in some cases adapt to their new medical realities.
From a practical point of view in terms of what our committee may make recommendations on, if we permit advance requests for medical assistance in dying, for you as a practitioner, how often would you want to see someone be legislatively required to revisit their advance requests so that we can be sure that...? Is it every year, every couple of years, every three years? I don't know.
Is this something that we as a committee need to be checking in on so that people are being required to look at their advance requests to be sure this is something that they still want as time goes forward?