Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my colleague for her thoughtful remarks, although I may disagree with her on some of her conclusions.
Would she agree that there needs to be better protection within the legislation to ensure that should their conscience not allow medical or health care practitioners who are providing end-of-life care to go down that path, that they should have the freedom not to participate?
Second, in terms of the potential future of this regime, in whatever form it ends up taking, is she concerned at all about the impact on the potential lack of trust between patient and doctor? What would this do to the patient-doctor relationship in terms of trust, especially for those who are elderly, who may be facing end-of-life decisions?