Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the interpreters for the excellent job they're doing.
Mr. Gubitz, until March 31, I was a social worker and a member of my professional association. I am a professional who believes in medical assistance in dying, who has advocated for that right and who defends it. Nevertheless, giving people whose sole medical condition is a mental illness access to MAID is very concerning to me. There doesn't seem to be a clinical consensus on how to determine whether a mental illness is irremediable. The irremediability of a condition is more or less the clinical test for determining whether a person is eligible to receive MAID or not.
Can you tell us how you define an irremediable mental illness?