Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Thank you. I'd echo everything that Ms. Morris just said. I would simply add that whatever body is there would have to have the capacity to respond quickly. There can't be backlogs or situations of “We're not going to get to it this week.” This needs to be done fast. Whatever a

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Thank you, Mr. Rankin. In terms of a waiting period in the situation of someone who has suddenly been injured and who feels as though they don't want to go on any further, I would echo what Professor Downie had to say a few meetings ago, which was that informed consent law and t

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  We think it would be a matter of simply asking the patient. Presumably the patient is in a conversation with the doctor who is refusing, a doctor who, under the norms of informed consent, would have had to provide information about the treatment. We would not excuse doctors from

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Thank you for your question. We are completely opposed to the proposition that there be a requirement for any sort of prior approval that goes beyond a patient and their physician coming to a decision on treatment, and of course it's the patient who will be making the decision a

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Yes.

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  This, we think, is actually a matter for the provinces, because it's about regulating access. Quebec provides an excellent example. Essentially we endorse the model that Quebec uses. In Quebec it's a local health authority. It would be up to provinces to figure out the appropriat

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Thank you. Ms. Pastine has stated our concern about Parliament seeking to comprehensively regulate assisted dying as a matter of the criminal law, but we nevertheless wish to set out what we see as critical elements of any system to govern physician-assisted dying, whoever is do

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Have the elector say, “Here I am, send me a ballot now; it's not a Mexican living in my apartment.” The minister made a comment that this is just like with special ballots and all that kind of stuff, it's just the same. It's not because these voters abroad are going to have to p

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I would agree that there is no evidence that it's broken. To respond to the concern being raised by the previous member, just because in a snap election we're going to be time crunched and there may be some difficulties with that, it doesn't mean that we

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's right. Of course, this is assuming that they are unable to satisfy Elections Canada, through identification, as to their residency. We can imagine so many problematic scenarios. There are maybe two parents living in the home riding and three kids who are all working abro

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I would agree with Mr. Biggar, Mr. Scott. Even if there were a Mexican so committed to the partnership of NAFTA that they wanted to have a say in our democratic process, we would just see that as being a very unlikely scenario. To balance that out, we're looking at a situation i

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you very much, Madam Chair, and thank you to the committee for the invitation to appear. The British Columbia Civil Liberties Association is a non-profit, non-partisan group whose objectives are to promote, defend, sustain, and extend human rights and civil liberties in C

Justice committee  I don't have that information either.

Justice committee  I can think of a range of different possibilities. We have to remember, to begin with, that where a 25-year minimum sentence has been imposed, there's a quarter of a century since the trial, never mind when the offence was committed. I can't say for any individual family what's

Justice committee  I think there's vulnerability here. To be honest, I didn't have enough notice of this appearance to do a more fulsome analysis. I think that in any instance when you're dealing with depriving someone of liberty, which of course is ultimately what all sentencing is about, you have