Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague from Louis-Saint-Laurent for his wonderful speech. I was listening carefully. He rightly brought up his own experience with the debate held in Quebec, and I think this experience is very important.
In Quebec, legislators realized that this law had to respect Quebec's own areas of jurisdiction, so they quickly started talking about end-of-life care, to ensure that the debate remained focused on health care.
Will the decision that we are making in Ottawa prevent unintended consequences that may not even have been considered in Quebec? For example, people are starving themselves to get access to end-of-life care.
By getting the legislation right in Ottawa, we can ensure that this legislation enables people who have serious medical concerns to make this decision. It always comes back to the issue of a reasonably foreseeable natural death. I agree with my colleague that this concept is rather vague. However, we do not want to have people starve themselves to access a service to which they are entitled.