Medical Assistance in Dying committee  No. The complaint with the college of physicians—and I guess you have to throw the nurses in there—was done just before.... It was in November 2021. We weren't in a hurry to do that, because we just thought that they wouldn't do that great a job of investigating their own. We were hoping for the RCMP to do it, but that's as far as we got.

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Yes, they say they're okay with it, even though they didn't take a statement from my brother or me, and they're aware that his application said that hearing loss was the reason for MAID. It's hard to think that you could have a reasonably foreseeable death from hearing loss, but that was it.

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  When Alan was in the hospital, that's where he did his will. He didn't have a will when he entered the hospital. They brought in a notary who filled out his will, and Alan made him the executer of the will, so we had trouble getting his records. We eventually got some medical records because we put a lien against the will and everything like that, for a while.

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Alan had a bit of a physical disability. When he was 12 and 13 he had brain surgery to remove a benign tumour. That's what affected his hearing and why later on he needed cochlear implants. When in the last surgery they removed the tumour, they had to take a little piece of the brain, which affected his right side.

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  There was nothing at all—he was treated for nothing.

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  They actually said they were not going to involve us in their investigation, but they would use all the information to do it behind closed doors. They could be doing something that we're not aware of. I did send them another email saying that the nurse who had filled out Alan's assessment was also the one who euthanized him.

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  He was in the psychiatric ward at the hospital. We went there. They gave him antidepressants for a couple of days, and then he was transferred to the PATH unit. Then the MAID team brought in their own psychologist. They didn't use the hospital's psychiatrists or the psychologists from when he was in the psychiatric ward.

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  His natural death was not foreseeable. He had no terminal illness. He was being treated for absolutely nothing in the hospital. He could have lived for several years, so his death was not foreseeable.

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  We have filed many complaints. We filed a complaint with the college of physicians in B.C., and they stated that they would not follow through with an investigation unless there was a criminal investigation by the RCMP. We went to the RCMP, and they said it was out of their jurisdiction.

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  We can provide the one from the College of Physicians. The RCMP actually just phoned my brother. He was in the Boston Bar area, about 45 minutes from the Chilliwack area, where Alan was euthanized. He had gone to the RCMP station. I can you give the case number and the constable's name, but all he received was a phone call saying, “Sorry, we can't help you.

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  I don't want to see MAID expanded until the safeguards are actually enforced, because there was a safeguard in Bill C-14, and that didn't help my brother. So—