Thank you for that.
We've also heard testimony that may have created confusion in our minds. I've written this down because it's complicated. The testimony suggested that people who have been accepted for MAID for a mental illness—including those who are comorbid, who have a mental illness and a physical illness at the same time, and who are currently acceptable—have not received substantial amounts of treatment and, therefore, MAID should never be provided to those individuals.
Can you help us through this conundrum? Maybe talk about what kinds of treatment processes, what duration of illness and what kinds of things a MAID assessor would have to look at, not just for mental illness but also for comorbid mental illness—a mental illness and a physical illness at the same time.