Physician-Assisted Dying committee  If the law were to allow a cocktail drug, such as is the case in Oregon, would you see that as being useful? I don't know whether that's the word. I'm trying to figure out how nurse practitioners or other people in rural areas could deal with this, if there were a legitimate re

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  The provincial-territorial report recommended that all regional health authorities have an effectively funded care coordination system in place to ensure patient access to physician-assisted dying. How would you see this coordination system being needed, particularly in rural c

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Dr. Soles, early in your testimony you said that physician-assisted death is palliative care. Could you elaborate on that for us, please?

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  At the end of your presentation you gave us a whole lot of questions to which I have no answers, so I'm coming back to you with them to ask for your best guess, or something like that. You talked about the doctors who work together. They wouldn't necessarily be independent of e

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Nobody wants—at least, I don't want—to force anybody into doing any of this, whether they're the patient or the doctor, but after you talked about having two physicians—and I assume there'd be a consent form—that people should have the right to change their minds. Did you have a

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  I have a point of clarification.

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  To the Alliance of People with Disabilities, my understanding is that you want us to do the floor in Carter; you want the government to make a robust commitment to the ceiling stuff, and you want us to have a white paper. I don't know why. We've had a provincial-territorial repor

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  That surely is the function of Parliament when a bill comes forward, both within the Commons and the Senate, to have public scrutiny of the bill. Have you read the three bills that were proposed in the last Parliament, both within the Commons and in the Senate? If so, do you ha

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  All right. Do you have recommendations about specific procedural safeguards that we should build into the physician-patient relationship for physician-assisted death?

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Senator Seidman, do you have a question?

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Yes.

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Thank you. You did say that there should be a review after death. Could you explain that a bit more?

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Who should do this review?

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Can you see this coming under the coroner's office in the provinces?

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Can you see the coroner's offices being expanded to include this kind of thing? What I'm getting at is, is there a need to create a new institution or can we use what already exists in every province and territory across Canada?