Mr. Speaker, I alluded to that as well. Let me give an example. If an individual is diagnosed with terminal cancer and that person goes to see 10 physicians, all 10 of them are going to agree on that diagnosis. Some of them may disagree on life expectancy, some might disagree on the type of treatment, but they would agree on the core issue, which qualifies the individual to apply for MAID. A mental illness is entirely different. In my previous life, I dealt with this quite a bit.
If somebody with a mental illness goes to 10 doctors, six of them might say yes, there is a serious mental illness; two of them might say no, there is no mental illness; and the other two might just say yes, there is, but it is going to get better. How in that scenario can a person possibly be granted access to MAID? Four of those doctors are saying they do not know whether the illness is irremediable. That is the difference. Until we can get that right, until we can design a system that those people do not slip through, I will never be comfortable supporting it.