Advance directives are defined in this legislation because it is in relation to withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatment in palliative sedation, not in relation to assisted death. It only relates to that. It fits into that standard model across the country. We have advance directives everywhere.
I would say not to use the language of advance directives in relation to assisted death, because you don't want to move into that whole provincial-territorial regime of advance directives. You want to keep this at the federal level, so you're saying someone can make a request in advance, but you're not importing the advance directives regime that we have in Canada at the time for assisted death. You make an advance declaration. You make a declaration, a request, in advance.
It's just defined in there because I actually have provisions in relation to something other than assisted death in the statute.