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Physician-Assisted Dying committee  And this would simply be in the form of a letter of wishes given to your health power of attorney.

January 18th, 2016Committee meeting

Nancy Ruth

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Okay. For my last question—to create some work for you—is it possible to have some kind of spreadsheet with this new report from the external review committee, from the provincial–territorial committee, and from other committees that have reported on what they say with regard to

January 18th, 2016Committee meeting

Nancy Ruth

January 18th, 2016Committee meeting

Nancy Ruth

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  You used the expression “advance consent”. Sometimes it's known as prior consent. There are other phrases for it. Is there any difference in law between these?

January 18th, 2016Committee meeting

Nancy Ruth

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  If my job is to represent—

January 18th, 2016Committee meeting

Nancy Ruth

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Okay. I'm going to move now to the issue of who's going to follow up on this. I know some groups in Canada are very keen to set up special panels or a panel of one that will deal with whether this should be justified and allowed, so my question is this. What legal processes do

January 18th, 2016Committee meeting

Nancy Ruth

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  I have one last question and it's a charter question. I spoke with a well-known constitutional lawyer who often appears before the Supreme Court and who mentally has issues. She said to me, “How dare you design a law that would exclude us who have mental illness? If you do so, I

January 18th, 2016Committee meeting

Nancy Ruth

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Thanks for raising the issue of equitable and affordable access to justice. Are there any real alternatives to relying on existing consent and capacity laws and processes, as recommended by the provincial-territorial expert advisory group on physician-assisted dying in recommen

January 18th, 2016Committee meeting

Nancy Ruth

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  I like the way you phrased it, because some people may not be able to get to a video conferencing centre. Thank you.

January 18th, 2016Committee meeting

Nancy Ruth