Madam Speaker, I thank the minister very much for that.
The point I want to make is with regard to permitting a waiver for the requirement to give final consent, in specific circumstances. Persons whose natural death is reasonably foreseeable who have been assessed as eligible for MAID and are at risk of losing capacity can make an arrangement with their practitioner in which they provide their consent in advance. This allows the practitioner to administer MAID on a specified day, even if the person has lost decision-making capacity.
There are some other issues related to that, but I thought it was a very important thing to get on the record.