Physician-Assisted Dying committee  In the Anishinabe culture, which I'm familiar with as a Anishinabe Métis, we go through rites of passage. For my daughter, when she had her first moon time, she was age 12. At around age 12 or 13, when they are going through their rites of passage, that's when you say they are st

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Yes, it would be around then, because you have to start taking care of your body. As a young woman, now it's your first menstruation, and now you have to start taking care of your body. Now you have to start making those decisions about your body. As a sacred young woman, or as a

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  I think it's going to depend on communities, to be honest with you, but I think the first thing would be for physicians and clinicians to really understand about power and the systemic issues. We have a lot of systemic issues that I think people don't want to acknowledge. Really,

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Oh, yes. Sometimes an adult is 18, sometimes an adult is 21, and sometimes it's 26. It really depends on the region. Sometimes we say you're still a youth when you're 26. That seems crazy to some people. How could you still be a youth when you're 26? But I was a youth for a long

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  No, it's good. I'm glad you're familiar with it.

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  It's refreshing. I was just looking at it the other day. I actually have a grant related to aging and dementia, and in the areas of aging, dementia, and end-of-life care, we are sorely lacking in training, especially with regard to indigenous people. I sit on the Royal College o

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  That would definitely be great. The thing is, this is already happening. Maybe it's not with physician-assisted dying, but it's already happening in health care in general in New Zealand. They're recognized. They work alongside physicians and nurse practitioners, and they are as

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Yes, I spoke about this, of course, in the first consultation. It is a concern. The reason it's a concern is that in our population, end-of-life palliative care isn't necessarily for an elderly population. We have multiple deaths in our communities. We have multiple suicides. We

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  That's a great question. As the previous speaker was speaking, I was agreeing—I apologize, but I've forgotten his name—because everything he was saying applies to indigenous people as well. If you think just about access to end-of-life and palliative care for indigenous people, i

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Meegwetch. Thank you very much. I don't have a very long presentation. I doubt that it will take 10 minutes. I want to thank you for this opportunity to present. I'm sorry that I couldn't be there in person today. I want to start out with a few points, mainly around the health