Physician-Assisted Dying committee  You know, they say if you can't read your own writing, you may actually be a physician.

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Thank you very much for that question. We did actually explore that a little bit with our membership. We did not do it in a very granular way, but when we asked them what their level of support would be overall, we came up with a number of around 30%. Once we start to add in some additional factors—for example, if the pain and suffering is purely psychological versus physical as well—the support drops.

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Thank you, Dr. Forbes, and thank you, committee members. Ensuring effective patient access across Canada will depend in part on how this issue is addressed. I would like to point out that a key focus of the CMA's work has been to ensure that both physicians and the patients for whom we care are represented in the overarching regulatory and legislative response to the Carter decision.