Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Ms. Long, we know that the Quebec minister of health wrote a letter to the committee. Mr. Schiefke spoke about it. She says that the province isn't necessarily ready to expand access to medical assistance in dying. However, she also isn't asking for the removal of the possibility, under the legislation, of requesting medical assistance in dying. I think that we need to keep doing research. Perhaps this small nuance in Quebec's position wasn't emphasized. We also know that Nova Scotia told us that it was ready.
In your remarks, which touched me deeply, you said the following. Why deny medical assistance in dying to a small number of people who are suffering from a mental illness and who could have access to it? You said “a small number”. You said that the criteria recommended by the experts are fairly restrictive.
Do you think that this will apply to a small number of people?