Mr. Speaker, I return the compliment to my friend, the member for Charlottetown and parliamentary secretary. I enjoy working with him as well.
However, in answering his question, while the court did not define “grievous and irremediable”, it is a logical leap, which I will not take, to imagine that the court was not considering the specific case in front of it. In other words, the case of Kay Carter dealt with someone who was in a grievous and irremediable situation, but her natural death was not foreseeable at that moment. The facts set before the court that led it to make this ruling was that there was a violation of charter rights, not in the abstract, but for the plaintiff, the litigant, before them. It described her condition as “grievous and irremediable”. In that, it did not insist that we know or that her doctors know that her natural death was foreseeable. In other words, the facts set in this case did not require a terminal illness.