Thank you very much, Chair.
Good evening, colleagues.
Thank you so much to the witnesses. I know it's very late for you, so we really appreciate the expertise you are sharing.
I know that Dr. van Veen commented on the importance of having MAID available to those suffering from mental illness, and it would be a small group, but in your account, Dr. van Os, Dutch psychiatric euthanasia became normalized gradually. Then it was accelerated. The numbers are more alarming now, with a small group of activist physicians helping drive that shift.
Can you explain how that happened in practice? Why should Canada take warning as to what could happen should we consider expanding MAID?