Justice committee  A clinician who is qualified to do palliative consultation.

Justice committee  The Criminal Code has established a standard of external pressure. That's the one criterion it stated for informed consent, and given that we're talking about an exemption to a Criminal Code prohibition on assisted suicide, I think we absolutely need to have a uniform standard of

Justice committee  I appreciate the concerns about cost and timeliness. However, the Supreme Court saw fit January 15 to impose judicial oversight rather than turning it over to two doctors to make this decision, so the Supreme Court must have felt a lot was at stake in terms of ensuring the consti

Justice committee  Thank you, and good evening honourable Chair and members of the committee. On behalf of our association, I'm pleased to present our brief outlining specific proposed amendments to Bill C-14, a brief we title “Medical Assistance in Dying: A Private Request, a Public Act”. Let m

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  We see it as a three-stage process. The physicians who are assessing and doing the diagnosis of the person who is requesting would be required to identify whether there are factors that are motivating the request other than the condition itself. The equation is that the conditio

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Okay. The family is completely stressed out, and we need to address that situation, because that's what's motivating the request. Then, at the third stage, if it is these other factors that predominate in motivating the wish, the person would not be eligible to proceed with th

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, honourable senators and members of Parliament. In order to arrive at our recommendations to this committee, the Canadian Association for Community Living asked for advice from People First of Canada, the national association of people with intellectual disa

Human Resources committee  CMHC's programs for non-profit housing and those kinds of investment tools have been more and more restricted over the last number of years, but its data make very clear that there is a hugely disproportionate number of people with disabilities who live in core housing need. I'm

Human Resources committee  Yes. We have experience with our local associations and other local agencies across the country. They're non-profit organizations run by community boards, and people with disabilities and family members often themselves. They're often contracted by provincial governments to deliv

Human Resources committee  Sure. I take that approach, too, in terms of the glass being half full. There are some very successful examples across the country. We've been looking at this very intensely over the last year and a half or so to figure out what the key factors are and what needs to happen. In t

Human Resources committee  We were pleased to see that focus with the committee. There are a couple of challenges when it comes to apprenticeship programs, and I'll speak to people with intellectual disabilities specifically, and then more generally Laurie and Vangelis can pick that up. Because of the na

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Madam Chair and members of the committee. My apologies for being late, but weather conspired against me and the airlines this morning. First of all, thanks to the committee for initiating this study. We think it's a very important step and in a sense overdue, because

Finance committee  We've had a costing done on this. It is linked to the jurisdictional issue that's been brought up a couple of times, on who does what. Given the current environment.... The federal government has identified that it will continue to play a role in transfers to individuals. We thin

Finance committee  I think we have to focus our support on individuals and families to enable them to make choices about where they want to live and the communities they want to live in. Without some community capacity to create disability-related supports, opportunities in the community, you need

Finance committee  Yes.