Well, I'm saying that I'm hoping this committee will make recommendations—based upon what the UN has said, based upon information from the last committee and based upon information we've heard here—that we'll honour the UN and our obligations to them and make recommendations to repeal track 2 MAID, including mental illness as a sole underlying condition.
I can't make recommendations on things in the future. We have to see what the recommendation from this committee is going to be and what we're going to do moving forward. Then I can make recommendations, but it will never be to euthanize individuals dealing with mental illness as a sole underlying condition or persons with disabilities when their basic needs aren't being met. Also, that shouldn't be, respectfully, anything that this committee should be endorsing.
We need to deal with the problems that are here today and the deficiencies within the systems. This is nothing new. This is a fight that we've been doing for years, as have other organizations. The reward for living a life of inadequacy and lack of access to services shouldn't be what people describe as a “dignified death”. We need to have dignified lives, where people get the support they need to thrive.
