Let me just clarify exactly what we have written in my annual report. We're talking about how the moratorium would be limited to carrying out the procedure inside the penitentiary.
This is the law in Canada, and I think it is very appropriate for Canadians citizens who are incarcerated to seek out MAID, medical assistance in dying. We believe that it is more appropriate that these decisions should be made in the community when the offender is on parole and serving the remainder of his or her sentence in the community. The recommendation for a moratorium was simply based on the one case of the procedure being carried out inside the penitentiary. That, for us, raises very big ethical and moral issues.
There have been three other cases in which people have sought it successfully, and the procedure was carried out in an outside hospital. We still had concerns with those. Hopefully, I'll get a chance to make remarks before the committee with respect to Bill C-7 to make sure that the government reinstitutes the obligation for the Correctional Service of Canada to investigate MAID, because it's considered a death in custody even if the procedure is done outside in the community.