Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Thank you. I'm just following up on my colleague's comments about jurisdiction. It seems to me that it's inevitable that the federal Parliament will legislate in its wisdom and that provincial legislatures may or may not legislate in areas that they think appropriate. There wil

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Do you see a particular area in which we should be particularly conscious of the federal and provincial jurisdictions rubbing together? Some are clearly provincial. Some are clearly federal. Some are within the purview of the regulatory authorities of the professions, but there a

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Thank you, Chair. To go back to the point I was pursuing earlier about the patchwork of legislation and regulation, our objective obviously would be to design a system that would be equally applicable and available to all Canadians wherever they live. Access to that, to any sys

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  I guess I was looking at the fact that it's a huge issue. It has interjurisdictional issues within issues. As a result of the ongoing discussions, can you help us by identifying two or three or four issues for which you think there would be a clear expectation of federal leader

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  To assure equality of access and opportunity, if that's the proper term—

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  —there is a responsibility on the part of the federal Parliament.

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  We're both going to be cut off here in a minute, but if I could just say this, I think Professor Hogg's answer to that was equivalency, meaning that there could be a declaration of equivalency if a province came up to a certain standard, even if they did it in a slightly differen

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  It initially has to be amended accordingly.

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Thank you, sir.

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Thank you for being here, and thank you for your work. In Carter, the terminology used was “grievous and irremediable medical condition (including an illness, disease or disability) that causes enduring suffering that is intolerable to the individual”. Do you see any reason to d

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  The courts have been very clear on that.

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  I have one more question. There's the business of conscientious objection. Nobody is trying to force anybody to participate in this process. That protects the practitioner, whether they're a physician or another medical professional. The corollary of that, in looking at it from

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  What would that look like?

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  That's the role of the regulatory authorities, the colleges of physicians and such?

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Exactly. Can I just make sure that your comments would also apply to institutions?