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Physician-Assisted Dying committee I have to be honest with you. My best guess, from what I've seen, is that there was a lot of concern about the potential for the issue to divide people. Obviously, when you count on donations, you worry about how your supporters will feel. However, I think there's also genuine am
February 1st, 2016Committee meeting
Gabriel Miller
Physician-Assisted Dying committee Thanks for that question. I hadn't even considered the confusion between palliative care and assisted dying. We have confusion within the country just on competing definitions of palliative care. This is tremendously important, because of course if we're talking about rights a
February 1st, 2016Committee meeting
Gabriel Miller
Physician-Assisted Dying committee I heard a similar question put to the minister by the media. I thought she did a pretty good job of handling the question, so I'll borrow from her. I don't think anyone would want the conversation to begin with ultimatums being issued by one order of government to another on this
February 1st, 2016Committee meeting
Gabriel Miller
Physician-Assisted Dying committee I won't speak to the question of where, because I wouldn't be speaking for anyone expect for me, and that's of no use to you whatsoever, I promise you. Our view is that end-of-life care needs to be considered to be medically necessary care. We have a principle in this country th
February 1st, 2016Committee meeting
Gabriel Miller
Physician-Assisted Dying committee I have an answer to your question. I'm not sure it's going to satisfy you, but we'll find out. The cancer society in Quebec has had quite a bit to say about the process there. The organization has been very involved in these discussions right along and has expressed strong supp
February 1st, 2016Committee meeting
Gabriel Miller
Physician-Assisted Dying committee I think I can speak on behalf of the organization on this point and say that we need national guarantees in terms of what Canadians can expect to receive in end-of-life care and a common set of standards and definitions around the terms we're using, so that there is a comparable
February 1st, 2016Committee meeting
Gabriel Miller
Physician-Assisted Dying committee Based on everything I've read about this, I think it makes a great deal of sense to say that palliative care needs to be available and that it needs to be an option in any scenario where assisted death is made available. I would only go a step further to say that we need to thin
February 1st, 2016Committee meeting
Gabriel Miller
Physician-Assisted Dying committee Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I am very happy to be here today. My name is Gabriel Miller. I'm the director of public issues for the Canadian Cancer Society here in Ottawa. I'm joined today by my colleague and our assistant director, Kelly Masotti. I'll be delivering our ope
February 1st, 2016Committee meeting
Gabriel Miller