Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My question is for Ms. Ells, from McGill University.
Witnesses representing palliative care physicians told us that they regularly engaged in physician-assisted dying, since one of the final steps in palliative care is palliative or continuous sedation. It consists of rendering a suffering patient unconscious such that death occurs naturally without causing any conscious distress.
In your view, ethically speaking, how does the practice of palliative sedation differ from the practice of physician-assisted dying?