Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague from Drummond for such an insightful question. In fact, I found the consultations with the physicians extremely important in understanding both the value of providing MAID in their practices, giving people options for dignity at the end of their lives when it was very clear this was the choice they had made, but also the complications in trying to assess a person's condition and whether or not, for example, death was imminent. There was a number of issues that physicians raised specifically around some of the amendments that we are making.
One that was really poignant was the need for additional witnesses in a case where someone could be extremely elderly or isolated and had no one to vouch for them. They said that they did a very thorough job assessing these situations and they needed government to acknowledge the expertise they have.