Thank you very much, Chair.
There are two questions I wanted to ask Dr. Gupta. Thank you for coming and taking this yeoman's duty today to spend all of this time answering our questions.
There are two things. During the course of hearing our witnesses, we have heard something that kept recurring. People said you shouldn't look at establishing incurability based on looking backward at what people's treatments were, what their access was, etc. You should be looking forward at what is the next big cure or what the next thing is, and giving them that kind of hope before you offer MAID. It's saying, “No, let's keep going and look forward to what we have to offer.” That's the first question that I'd like to hear a comment on.
The second one is about a point you made in the report. Basically, a lot of people can't.... Witnesses in the hearings tended to take suicide and mental health and conflate them. You clearly said in your report that people do not have suicidal ideation purely because they have a mental health problem. In fact, the majority of people with mental health problems don't express suicidal ideation.
The second piece is that a lot of people with suicidal ideation do not have a mental health problem. Should we conflate those two? Should we see them as separate issues? You are making the point that they are separate issues.