Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for her excellent speech tonight. My friend across the way pointed out that this debate has been going on for a very long time. He said since the 1990s. I would say versions of this debate have been going on since the dawn of time, actually.
It is notable that in 10 years, and through multiple phases of expansion, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau chose not to bring in advance directives. There were people in this House and elsewhere pushing for it at the time, but there were also grave concerns about how advance directives would lead to somebody in the future choosing to kill someone based on a document they signed in the past that may be ambiguous, may not be clear, or may not relate to their present lived experience or present preferences. Justin Trudeau thought that was a bridge too far.
Now we have a Prime Minister who actually wants to go further in the expansion than Justin Trudeau did. Further, he is trying to deviously tie it to another issue. The core point on advance directives is this was considered for 10 years by a previous Liberal government, and Justin Trudeau was not exactly a moderate on these issues. It was too far, yet the Prime Minister has chosen to go even further.
Why is that?