It's taking me a bit outside of my area of my expertise.
I'm looking at this as an emergency physician contemplating a situation where I see a patient in front of me who is having suicidal ideation, who has dementia and impulsiveness, or who may be a victim of interpersonal violence. In those situations, we are saying that we, as the physicians, can be the reporting person. That takes away some of those roadblocks for family members or victims to make those reports.
It's similar to what we are called upon to do with people who are at risk of having a licence to drive. In those situations, it's not the individual but the emergency physician, or perhaps the family doctor, who would be making that report. That would hopefully take away some of those barriers.
Whether the court is there as a court of last resort doesn't really affect that kind of situation. I'm not sure I have a specific answer for you on whether keeping the court there as a possibility is helpful or a hindrance. We are saying that we need to have a more timely mechanism to help make this provision of the act actually fulfill its goal.