That's absolutely part of any standard psychiatric consultation, really, but also for any evaluation for assisted dying.
I'm glad you raised this, because I think it's really important to remember that suicidality and suicide risk does not attach only to mental disorders. People who do not have mental disorders can be at risk and can complete suicide. It is very well documented that people in the first months after diagnosis of certain types of cancer have a higher rate of completed suicide than those in the general population. In fact, suicide risk evaluation is relevant to all of MAID assessment, not only for people with mental disorders as their sole condition.
It's also important to remember the opposite: that simply having a mental disorder does not necessarily make you at risk for suicide. There are people with mental disorders who have never had suicidal thoughts, who have never made a suicide attempt and who have never contemplated it in any way.
Again, to come back to the other gentleman's question, I can tell you about these things in general, but so much depends on the individual and their circumstances, and the assessment process has to be individualized to their needs.
Absolutely, suicidality is part of an assessment. For someone for whom it's a prominent problem, the guidance that we have in this country is that interventions that target suicidality ought to be tried. Certainly, for somebody who's in a crisis, it's not even time to be talking about a MAID assessment. That's not going to happen. Things need to settle down. That person needs to be looked after. Things need to be safe before that can even be contemplated.