Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, Minister, for joining us today.
Mr. Minister, you stated earlier that you've been around politics for a very long time, and I think you would probably agree with me that politics is a performance-based industry.
Recently we've sat in these committees where reports from the ombudsman general auditor and the PBO and our own committee reports say that wait times for service delivery have not decreased. This has continued to go on. Now we're sitting here dealing with how the service is being delivered.
Your statement mentions training for frontline staff. I have a question about what kind of training there can be, since under the law, MAID is a discussion to be had between a physician and a patient, and your department has no mandate to be part of that discussion. This law was passed back in 2016, which the department should have been made aware of, and the department should have had policies in place.
My question to you is this: If this is an isolated incident, why is the investigation still continuing?