Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for her presentation. I appreciate her sensitivity on this matter and would like to hear her thoughts on the following.
My colleague just mentioned the importance of making sure everyone has access to health care. I would like to go back to an important aspect of this bill.
Would she agree that we need to stop putting palliative care and medical assistance in dying at odds with one another?
The two are not mutually exclusive. In other words, people should be allowed to choose medical assistance in dying if they so wish, just as people who want palliative care should be able to receive it for as long as possible. This might require an increase in health transfers.