Mr. Speaker, I would certainly argue that it would not. There is mention of conscience rights in the preamble, but we have seen before that the preamble is not the meat of the bill. It does not have the same effect that it would if it were in among the provisions of the bill.
I have spoken with many medical professionals since the bill came out, since the Supreme Court ruling came out, and there is grave concern about participating in this sort of scheme. I want to be clear that sometimes there is a religious bent, but often it is an ethical bent. It is people who have spent their entire lives, gone to school, sometimes for over a decade, to help save lives, who are now being told that part of the medical system is to provide assisted suicide or euthanasia services, and they are morally or ethically opposed to doing so.
I do not think the bill goes far enough in protecting those people from opting out of the system, and it is one of the reasons I will not be supporting it.