Physician-Assisted Dying committee  I like the way you phrased it, because some people may not be able to get to a video conferencing centre. Thank you.

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Thanks for raising the issue of equitable and affordable access to justice. Are there any real alternatives to relying on existing consent and capacity laws and processes, as recommended by the provincial-territorial expert advisory group on physician-assisted dying in recommen

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Okay. I'm going to move now to the issue of who's going to follow up on this. I know some groups in Canada are very keen to set up special panels or a panel of one that will deal with whether this should be justified and allowed, so my question is this. What legal processes do

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  I have one last question and it's a charter question. I spoke with a well-known constitutional lawyer who often appears before the Supreme Court and who mentally has issues. She said to me, “How dare you design a law that would exclude us who have mental illness? If you do so, I

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  If my job is to represent—

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  You used the expression “advance consent”. Sometimes it's known as prior consent. There are other phrases for it. Is there any difference in law between these?

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  And this would simply be in the form of a letter of wishes given to your health power of attorney.

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Okay. For my last question—to create some work for you—is it possible to have some kind of spreadsheet with this new report from the external review committee, from the provincial–territorial committee, and from other committees that have reported on what they say with regard to

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Thank you.

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  In some states in the United States, assisted suicide is allowed, but not euthanasia. In contrast, in the Benelux countries, both assisted suicide and euthanasia are allowed. Quebec has chosen to permit euthanasia but not assisted suicide. Can you explain what the debate was and

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  In the parts of northern Quebec or in very rural areas where there may only be a nurse or even a nurse practitioner, do you allow teleconferencing? How is instruction given and how is consent given?

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  There's no prior consent in the Quebec law—prior to, say, getting dementia.

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Thank you for your work and for being here tonight. In your issues book in eligibility scenario number 3, you asked Canadians whether they should be able to receive physician-assisted death based on an advance directive. Sixty-two per cent of the balanced representative sample a

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  I'm happy to do so, but my question was on your report, in which 62% strongly agreed or agreed that this was a good thing and that it received the most support. Is that correct? While the secretariat is finding the answer to that question, I'll go on. One of the things that am

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  So does that mean that a patient and the doctor—