Madam Speaker, I appreciate the member's comments on this and many other matters. I raise an issue with his suggesting the false dichotomy between palliative care and this legislation. In fact, in the previous Parliament, the House passed legislation in the preamble, which very clearly said:
Whereas the Final Report stated that a request for physician-assisted death cannot be truly voluntary if the option of proper palliative care is not available to alleviate a person’s suffering;....
This is a critical issue. Access to palliative care is critically short in the country, so there is no false dichotomy. Why is the member's government not putting together a pan-Canadian strategy on palliative care and investing the money necessary so we have that?