Thank you very much, Senator, for the question.
The first thing I would say is that the current safeguards are flimsy at best and have gaping holes in them. I would also go on to say, as many others have testified in front of this committee, that when you have a fundamental equality issue, there is no safeguard that is going to fix that.
What we have here is a situation where we have singled out one group of people for death instead of support. One hundred per cent of the people who have called and are calling our office are saying they do not want to die. We have a fundamental disability rights equality problem, and there are no more band-aids we're going to be able to put on that to change it.
I would also say that with the “safeguards”—and I'm putting that in air quotes because they, as I mentioned, are flimsy at best—that we do have, there's no oversight to even make sure they're followed. You just have to look at the death review committee in Ontario and what they're finding to see there's really no oversight on whatever safeguards might be in place to start with.