Mr. Speaker, let us talk about the government's record here. Bill C-218 would have permanently prevented MAID from expanding to people whose sole underlying condition is mental illness. The Liberals voted it down on October 7. Twenty days later, they introduced their own legislation containing the same protection, but attached an entirely different expansion of MAID.
The parliamentary committee had already recommended the permanent exclusion in June. The Liberals cannot pretend this is some new sudden revelation that requires an entirely new legislative package. They had the evidence. They had the recommendation. They had the bill before them. We could have addressed all the issues. They chose to defeat it and now they want to dictate the terms of protecting the very people they refused to protect three weeks ago.