Mr. Speaker, I would just like to share, first of all, my deep condolences to the member, as I know his family well.
I just want to quote a little message I got in an email yesterday. This individual says:
I watched your speech in [the House] yesterday and was touched by it. My dad was 93 and home alone with cancer in 2005. He was so bad I wished for euthanasia. Got him in palliative care and he improved immediately. They gave him 3 weeks of improved quality of life. When things got very bad they made him painfree until he died. It changed my mind on euthanasia.
That is just a comment, again, about the dynamics of the government making a commitment to improving palliative care, yet we are not seeing that take place.