Mr. Speaker, the member raises the issue of advance requests, and that is an important issue we are debating today as part of this piece of legislation. With advance requests, there is a set of eligibility rules and safeguards prescribed in the bill, and people would have to meet all of those requirements in order for the advance request to be valid. With that being said, of course, people experience illness and later on, in different stages of the illness, it is possible that they might have a different viewpoint. They might express that in a different way, or maybe sometimes they do not. That is the essence of the question that needs to be resolved.
Through the committee process, it would be absolutely critical for the government not to rush through but to invite different witnesses with different perspectives, for them to be heard and for the committee members to ask important questions in order to arrive at the correct decision in moving forward.
