It's very clear that nobody ever—ever—would get MAID that they didn't want. That's clearly excluded in the law. No clinician would ever do that, absolutely.
Your point about abortion is important, because we had to get abortion rights through the courts too. It's telling. As well, abortion came in Quebec. They were leaders on that. They were leaders on same-sex marriage. They were leaders on MAID. It's through the consultative processes they do that they get there.
I think I would point you back to, in fact, the abortion decision in Morgentaler, where the idea of the freedom to make choices that are fundamental to our lives is expressed incredibly powerfully by Chief Justice Dickson and Justice Bertha Wilson. That was a long time ago, but that is a through line in Canadian constitutional law. It's a fundamental commitment to respecting people's autonomy. Yes, we protect the vulnerable, but we must respect autonomy.
