Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Thank you, Dr. Macdonald. For our third panellist, there was a misunderstanding and that person thought they were in the second hour. Fortunately, somebody from the second hour is here in the first hour, Dr. Arundhati Dhara, and is ready to speak. She is a family physician. Dr

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  When Mary Ellen Macdonald gave testimony earlier she talked about quite a comprehensive application that is before government for funding that is really trying to fill this gap. The pieces that are being considered, whether it's with that project or another, are from groups

Medical Assistance in Dying committee   with disabilities, youth in the child welfare system and youth living with terminal illnesses, as well as their families. In keeping with the previous testimony from Franco Carnevale and Mary Ellen Macdonald, respecting our responsibilities to young people would include studying

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Thank you very much, Senator Martin. This brings our panel to a close. On behalf of the committee, I would like to thank Ms. Sheehy, Dr. Macdonald and Dr. Dhara for their testimony this morning on a very important subject. We very much appreciate you being with us

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  That's a difficult question. On the one hand, I think we have to have very rational, evidence-based conversations with everybody and every perspective on an issue like this, which is of real societal importance. I will refer here to Dr. Macdonald's research around getting

Canada-China Relations committee  It's Dr. Simon.

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  With regard to the final part of your question about international jurisdictions, I would say that no, we don't have data from international jurisdictions that is completely amenable to a Canadian situation. I think there are a lot of specificities in Canada that require Canadian

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  No, it has not been financed yet. We're still in discussions.

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  That's correct. They invited us to submit the proposal, so the discussions are continuing.

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  I don't really feel at liberty to address that question yet.

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  No, absolutely not. I'm a qualitative researcher, so our budgets are generally quite small.

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  I believe so. We were very careful with the scientific design of the study. As I said, we're starting at a zero baseline. There's very little data, so any data would be useful. We have tried to design a robust study that could be completed in three years and that would give us

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  In my professional opinion, it's so essential to have youth opinions, perspectives and experiences at the table as we're having these conversations. I think it's absolutely essential. By youth, I'm talking about individuals who are embedded in communities and in families. In our

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Thank you, Ms. Sheehy. We'll now go to Dr. Mary Ellen Macdonald for five minutes.

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Good morning and thank you, Mr. Chair. My contribution to this discussion is as a social science researcher with two decades of experience in palliative care research with both younger and older populations. Specific to mature minors, I was a member of the CCA expert panel worki