Thank you very much.
I would like to make a comment, if I could, Chairs, that over the last few sessions we have heard witnesses so many times using pejorative words and making claims about surreptitious medicating and other things. I think we need to make sure in advance that our witnesses are reminded that their statements should be supported with evidence and documentation if they are going to be meaningful for us here, and they should be qualified to comment on this, because it is our mandate to look at advance requests.
My question is for Danielle Chalifoux.
We talk a lot about safeguards for health care professionals. I think you mentioned that again this evening. I guess my concern is about the safeguards and assurances for the individuals who, being of sound mind, ask, through an advance request, to have MAID when certain conditions are met or when they have reached a certain level of decline.
How can we actually assure them of those safeguards without something like an advance request being expected and recognize that there simply isn't any other way?