Mr. Speaker, I want to stress this again. Bill C-7 would not change the basic requirements for receiving medical assistance in dying. People must have an incurable medical condition and be in an advanced state of irreversible decline and intolerable suffering. Two independent medical assessors are required to certify that the patients meet those requirements. If and only if those requirements are met, then they proceed to a medical assistance in dying practitioner, doctor or nurse practitioner, who can then render that assistance to people in what are sometimes very difficult moments at end of life.
In the House of Commons on December 4th, 2020. See this statement in context.