Thank you.
I thank each of the witnesses for being here.
Dr. Somerville, you're a professor of law at McGill, professor of the Faculty of Medicine, and the founding director of the law faculty's Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law, so we're quite fortunate to have you with us today testifying.
You've said you believe it's important to have quality palliative care to be able to actually obtain informed consent. Are you intimating that without dealing with the emotional or physical suffering an individual cannot give true informed consent?