I call to order this meeting of the Special Joint Committee on Physician-Assisted Dying.
Thank you, especially right now to our witnesses, and my apologies on behalf of all of us in the House of Commons for twice changing the time of this meeting. Times often change once and rarely twice, but when votes and ministerial statements happen, we seem, at least on the House side, to demand a lot of flexibility. Thank you, both for being so willing to come in any case and for coming despite our change in meeting time.
I will just note that our co-chair, Senator Ogilvie, is at another meeting and will get here as soon as he can.
I'll remind the committee that we will be meeting for an hour in this first session. We may ask for a few minutes of flexibility because we have three panels tonight, so I may ask for another five minutes at the end if we want to keep questioning for a bit. I'll check with you about that. We have some time before the vote in the House, so that should be okay.
Go ahead, Mr. Warawa.