Thank you, Madam Chair.
Welcome, Ms. Gupta.
Thank you for providing all that information, as chair of the Expert Panel on MAID and Mental Illness.
The people before you today are members and senators. At the end of the day, we are lawmakers who don't have all of your psychiatric expertise.
Our focus is whether to permit medical assistance in dying when mental illness is the sole underlying condition. I don't know what the split among psychiatrists is on the issue, but we have heard arguments at both ends of the spectrum from members of the profession.
That said, there seems to be a consensus within the profession that it is indeed possible to distinguish between a person who has suicidal tendencies and a person who does not, even if that person is suffering solely from mental illness. Do I have that right?