Madam Speaker, my colleague is absolutely right about the importance of conscience protections for physicians, which is why we brought forward amendments to this bill to provide for conscience protections.
The members across the way say, “Nothing to see here. No need for such protections.” They point to a recognition of conscience protections being in the preamble of Bill C-14. Could the member speak to that?
Second, I would note that the Carter decision, paragraph 132 states:
Nothing in the declaration of invalidity which we propose to issue would compel physicians to provide assistance in dying.
Yet that is happening in Ontario, violating the charter rights of physicians.