Madam Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague for her question, which gives me an opportunity to explain that people often confuse advance requests with advance directives.
An advance request is a request for MAID made by a person with a neurodegenerative cognitive disease that is incurable, irrerversible and therefore incapacitating. They have to be diagnosed first, though. It is not like signing the back of a health card to consent to being an organ donor.
If I am 50 years old and I make an advance request for MAID today in case I get Alzheimer's disease, the form will go straight into the trash can. That is because I need to be diagnosed with it first. Once a person has a diagnosis, then they become eligible for care. They are then taken in hand by a care team that sees them through to the end of their journey, as hard as that may be.