You are correct that I do not agree with you. On the systemic discrimination, if that were the argument, then we would offer MAID to anybody who was suffering and wasn't dying, but we don't do that. We offer MAID to people with terminal illnesses, equally across the board, who are dying, but track 2 MAID is only for one particular group of people. It's for people with disabilities who are not dying.
If we are going to say that we are somehow not creating systemic discrimination, why wouldn't we be offering MAID to everybody? We would be offering it to everybody who wanted it who said they were suffering intolerably, but we don't. We don't do that. I don't think anybody around this table would think that's a good idea. Why, then, is it okay to offer MAID to people with disabilities who are not dying? Is it because their lives are somehow less worth living than everyone else's?
