Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I would like to come back to one of the criteria that the Supreme Court has stated in Carter. I'll read it to you. You certainly know it. It says a person has to have “a grievous and irremediable medical condition”—and this is my point—“that causes enduring suffering that is intolerable to the individual in the circumstances of his or her condition.”
In other words, there is an element of subjectivity on the part of the person who endures the suffering. When you endure the suffering, you can endure physically and you can endure mentally. It's you who endures. A doctor might come to the conclusion that what you endure may be curable. However, if the person has the specific conviction that it is intolerable to that person, where do you intervene, or should you intervene, to prevent that person from exercising his or her right to physician-assisted dying?