Mr. Speaker, I believe people should have choice, but choice should be a real choice. Palliative care is the right way to go. Somebody who wrote to me said that we should let Canada be known as a country of advanced palliative care, not as a country of an ever-expanding provision of MAID.
I understand people suffer and may not be able to give concurrent consent, however this country can certainly invest more money in advanced palliative care, which would relieve suffering to a very large degree. We should work on alleviating the suffering, not eliminating the sufferer.