Thank you, Senator.
I would love to comment on it more. I'll have to be very brief, given the time.
I could go on at significant length about the lack of safeguards in response to the reassurances Dr. Gupta has provided. Among those are the lack of readiness for making the predictions I've discussed for separating suicidality. We can't.
It's even the issue of the guidance from the Canadian Psychiatric Association. That's my former association. I'm a past president of that. Their guidance has been really troubling, because it lacks evidence. It's based, again, on consensus. They said in 2023 that we were ready. They said in 2024 that we were ready, but it's a constructed consensus that most psychiatrists do not share. Most psychiatrists in the country are against expanding MAID solely for mental illness. The reason for that is not based on ideology. The reason for that is based on evidence and concern about extending these assessments to suicidal individuals who are marginalized.