Thank you very much, Madam Co-Chair, and thank you to the witnesses.
I'm going to address my questions to Dr. Gallagher.
In the last panel, Dr. Downie said that it would be illogical not to extend advance requests—there are already advance requests in the context of MAID in some limited circumstances—that advance decisions, including those about the withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment and other medical interventions are already available to patients if they choose, and that the safeguards in place for those advance decisions could quite easily be adopted in the case of advance requests for MAID.
What are your comments on that, Dr. Gallagher? Could you expand on that?