Mr. Speaker, when the government is talking about things like intolerable pain or unbearable pain, I think we can all agree that for some people it is a very fluid, subjective statement. Therefore, if we are basing it on subjectivity, what can be intolerable pain for one person could be a case of depression for someone else. Is the government not really admitting that it is opening the door in the future for people to get an assisted death for any and every reason because the criteria it is setting are just so subjective for people?
In the House of Commons on October 21st, 2020. See this statement in context.