Canada's resources should be focused on providing better supports for women with mental illness to escape male violence and to live dignified lives, not on developing secretive curricula for training people to facilitate their suicides.
We urge this committee to take the UN recommendations seriously and have the courage to put an end to the prospect of MAID on the sole basis of mental illness. Canada will never be ready to facilitate the suicides of women with mental illness.
Just as a reminder, please direct your questions to Professor Grant. She will respond on behalf of both of us.
Thank you.