Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his excellent work on this file as the shadow minister for justice for our caucus and also as vice-chair of the justice committee.
I am not a regular member of the committee, but I have had the opportunity to listen to some of the incredibly moving testimony, and it is hard for me to understand how someone could sit through and listen to that testimony and still vote against these amendments. We heard from physicians. We heard from people with disabilities. We heard from organizations. There was unanimity among those from the disabled committee who testified before the committee. They said they have a very different experience with the health care system in the context of medical assistance in dying. It is being offered and even pushed on them. We heard from many witnesses who raised that concern.
It is hard for me to understand how members of the government caucus could sit through those hearings, listening to those concerns and to reasonable calls for amendments, and then vote down 100% of the amendments that people with disabilities were saying would address their concerns. However, it explains why the government was so keen to shut down those hearings prematurely.
I would appreciate hearing more from my colleague about his response to that compelling testimony.