I don't consider them to be identical statements, because you were talking about cancer pain, and that's a completely different thing from psychological pain. We're hearing psychiatrists say to us very clearly that to assess a grievous and irremediable medical condition for psychiatric conditions would assume that there is a clear consensus or a clear way to say that this person is not going to get better, and they say that's not possible.
We're talking about a diagnosis that is not able to be confirmed, yet the question is, can we go ahead with MAID euthanasia in those cases? If it were a physical condition, and we said that case is clearly not irremediable, they are not dying and they are not irremediable, then they would say, “We can't accept you for MAID”, yet we're saying with mental health, “Oh, well, we can't determine that, but we might go forward anyway.”
