Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for her remarks.
The member for Parkdale—High Park, I believe it was, is quite correct to say that this legislation would create one of the most permissive euthanasia regimes in the world. That is certainly what I understood him to say, and I think that would be quite correct.
We are limited to some extent, obviously, by the legal environment we are in. However, my concern is that this does not contain the safeguards we need to ensure that there are precautions in place so that someone who took someone's life without consent would be effectively prosecuted.
I want to ask the member if she would support my proposal to remove the reasonable, but mistaken, provision within this bill. I think that would be a substantial improvement.
The bill right now says that people could avoid prosecution if they have a reasonable, but mistaken, belief that someone consented. This would allow people to take the life of a person who did not consent and, yet, escape prosecution if they could at least show, beyond a reasonable doubt, that they had a reasonable, but mistaken, belief.
Would the member support removing that very concerning section, in order to ensure that vulnerable people are protected?