Thank you for the question.
In my prepared remarks I suggested that the implementation of Carter itself—which is, as we've discussed, restricted to its own facts—could be done with a rather minimal amendment to sections 14 and 241(b) provisions that were impugned. In the event that access to physician-assisted death was provided in a province that had not yet adopted a comprehensive scheme, and we had that minimalist of federal response, how would that void be filled?
In my prepared remarks I offered the proposal that it may be that existing guidelines and standards within the medical profession for dealing with existing end-of-life decision-making could fill the void in the absence of a provincial response. Obviously, the preferred response would be a robust provincial answer, but in its absence I say that fallback may be preferable to a rushed federal response implemented through the federal criminal law power.
I'll ask Ms. Birrell if she wishes to augment that.