Madam Speaker, I want to underline that there has been some discussion here about psychological suffering. The legislation very clearly includes psychological suffering as a criterion and subsection 241.2(2) talks about physical or psychological suffering being a criterion. The member, quite rightly, illustrates how having these provisions could create a more permissive environment for suicide more generally. We have heard his concerns about veterans. The member for Winnipeg Centre has spoken quite eloquently about the effect of some of this in the aboriginal community.
Would the member agree with me that we should simply remove the reference to psychological suffering from the legislation? It would be cleaner and clearer if we were to talk specifically about physical suffering and would not create some of these problems that he and others have raised.