Madam Speaker, first of all, I would like to express my condolences to the member on the one-year anniversary of the passing of his mother-in-law.
I acknowledge that the member has made his position very clear, and I respect it. However, there have been concerns from medical professionals and other experts about clinical, ethical and legal issues associated with advance requests. These include, for example, the difficulty in securing or delivering fully informed consent, insofar as it is difficult for one to predict one's future state, as well as issues around the subjectivity of advance requests and the interpretation of such requests in the face of the physician's being unable to reaffirm consent by the patient. Could he address these concerns?