Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague the parliamentary secretary for his very good question.
What we know is that in Truchon, the judge assessed the criteria in Carter and applied them to the situation of these two people who were living with disabilities but whose death was not reasonably foreseeable.
According to the judge, denying access to medical assistance in dying to persons in that situation was unconstitutional in that it constituted a violation of the rights guaranteed under sections 7 and 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
That is what prompted us to introduce legislation that responds to what we have heard from more than 300,000 people.