Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Thank you.

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Ms. Ng, you have said that access should be evenly available and that doctors must transfer patients if they have a conscientious objection. What is the opinion of the Unitarian Council if the hospital is a faith-based hospital that objects to doing physician-assisted death, not

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  We had testimony from some psychiatric association that if a person had colon cancer, say, and requested physician-assisted death, and they had a history of mental illness, a psychiatrist should be called in to assess competence before that was given. Do you agree with that?

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Thank you. Professor, I note your professional work on feminist approaches to bioethics. Could I ask you for a gender-based analysis of physician-assisted death? Are there particular matters in physician-assisted death relating to women, or to men, of which this committee shoul

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Thank you. Ms. Baxter—

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Dr. Smith, in your experience, are doctors familiar with the social determinants of health? If they are, will doctors be able to distinguish between a grievous and irremediable medical condition and a patient's wish to die because of inequalities in health care, societal neglect,

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Thank you, Chair. I would like to know, what is “palliative care”? The reason I'm asking is that I heard recently of a friend whose husband had colon cancer and was in palliative care. He was effectively starved and not given fluids. His muscles contracted, and it seemed that he

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Were you surprised by the story I just told you, that this happened to this particular man in palliative care?

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  All right. You've given all these criteria. When my own mother was 90 and was told it wasn't worth pumping out her lungs and doing heart work, she was given three choices on how to die. She chose one and that was it. She was put on a morphine drip and out she went. There was no

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Okay. Thank you.

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  To the council on disabilities, you've said that a vulnerability assessment should be mandated. I wonder if you could tell us, of the countries that allow some sort of physician-assisted dying, whether it's in Europe or the United States, whether any of them require either a ma

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  What you have said, though, is that apart from some legislation that may be coming forward in Colombia, there are no existing models of this. My comment is, why put it on Canadians? In terms of informed consent, you did say that it may require someone else to do this other than

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  I'm sure that is always so. I'm someone with type 2 diabetes who is going blind and I can assure you my doctors of various kinds tell me where to go for low-vision clinics and all kinds of other things, and what foods to eat and not eat. There are supports out there. With regard

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Would that be done by Telehealth or a similar means in rural parts of Canada or in the north?

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  But you're very clear that there needs to be a psychiatric assessment, for the pharmacists.