Thank you again, Mr. Chair.
I just have another question for the Canadian Paediatric Society.
You pointed out that quality palliative care must be accessible for children and youth, and you extrapolate from some British Columbia data that indicated 10 out of every 10,000 children are in need of palliative care services, and yet with that very low number, 10 out of 10,000, you indicate that only 5% to 12% would have benefited from palliative care services in terms of what was available to them. I think you're pointing out to this committee again the extremely low level of palliative care options that are available, especially in terms of palliative care for children. We know in a general sense from the expert advisory panel that only 55 out of 77,000 Canadian physicians are specialists in palliative care. These two very concerning issues point out that we need to do better.
My question would be this. Are you saying in your submission that for physician-assisted death to be offered, before that happens we at least have to be able to offer extensive palliative care options to children who may, in the future, be requesting this procedure?