Thank you, Chair.
Thank you all very much for being with us tonight.
I'd like to go back to an issue that we've all been struggling with. Dr. Stern, you really did say that to us. We have been struggling with rights of conscience.
We understand we have the imperative to balance the charter rights of physicians to their conscientious objection with the charter of rights of patients to access. In your response to Senator Joyal, you spoke about patients' rights to access to care, and how Quebec has done this.
I was looking at page 7 of your submission to us, at the end of the first paragraph. I'd like to try to understand how this is connected. You wrote, “we urge Parliament to ensure that physicians' freedom of conscience is protected when considering the legislation in response to Carter.”
I understand the “ensuring the patient access to care” component as it plays out in Quebec. Is that the answer to ensuring that physicians' freedom of conscience is protected, with which you charged Parliament? I'd like to ask you about that as well, if I may.