Access delayed is access denied. There are many caveats and many obstacles that were described by the CCD, which, by the way, is a great organization. They have done great work, but on this.... I'm not in Parliament now, but I've been in Parliament long enough to know that Ottawa could really screw this up by putting in too much red tape and by making assumptions about what people feel about life and what quality of life is.
You cannot have a cookie-cutter solution when you are dealing with individuals. Doctors deal with individual cases all the time. I believe the chair of the committee is an oncologist. Are there two cases that are identical? Of course not.
The further you move away from the Carter decision, the more likely it is that you're going to step into provincial jurisdiction. When you make that step, I predict you'll go into constitutional darkness, never to be found again. That is just the reality.
For health, for palliative care, of course we should put in as many resources...but that is a provincial area of responsibility and provinces need to decide how they're going to use the monies they receive from the taxpayers and make decisions accordingly.