First of all, Justice Wilson in Morgentaler spoke really passionately about the fact that people should have the right to make fundamental life choices, which would include the most fundamental: when you want to die or how you want to die, if you are eligible for MAID.
As far as capacity assessments are concerned, of course people can only receive MAID if they are capable of understanding and consenting to MAID. There are additional safeguards around that in the legislation, such as that they have to be informed of all of their alternatives and that they have to have considered what else could be done for them. The practitioner has to be satisfied that they have actually seriously considered those things. That's all in the legislation.
