Mr. Speaker, I have two specific follow-up questions. The member alluded to the government's commitment on home care, but we need to be clear that there is a big difference between palliative care and home care. Home care is the care that someone receives in their home to support their ongoing independence—it could be at varying stages—and palliative care is specifically the care for those who are dying.
I wonder if the member could clarify what kinds of investments we will see in palliative care, especially since neither of these things were in the budget.
Second, I want to ask him about contemporaneous consent, because the concern I have is that if we were to move down the road of having advance directives in this legislation, we would have a very different consent there than for sexual consent. In the context of sexual consent, of course, we require contemporaneous consent.
Why would we have a lower bar for consent when someone is choosing to die than for someone who is choosing to engage in sexual activity?