Physician-Assisted Dying committee  I think the most important aspect of this law is that you have a clear outcome. Is the goal to empower the crown prosecutors to have leniency in how they prosecute? Is it to ensure that the power lies within the regulatory colleges? Or is it patient-centred, whereby the patient d

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  That answer has two parts. The first part is that with any law that has this type of complexity, I'd expect it to evolve, so although you are obliged to create a law that is thoughtfully put together, there should be thought on how it will grow over the years. Dr. Grant commented

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  That's an excellent point and thank you for the question. I'll go back to a comment that was raised earlier about the Supreme Court saying that this is a cruel choice. I think when Carter came down the way that it did, it was an effort by the Supreme Court to ensure that patients

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  I think that possibility does exist. Dr. Grant can probably speak to the ability of any of the regulatory colleges to actually enforce their standards on reserve. A good example would be any of the multiple news stories you've seen of patients who have died in northern communit

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Thank you for your question. I'll touch on a couple of comments from Dr. Grant and Mr. Russomanno. Dr. Grant mentioned that you should not put administrative oversight between the patient and the physician. As I mentioned in my preamble, we've created a system design that absol

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Thank you very much. My name is Alika Lafontaine, and I am an Oji-Cree anaesthesiologist practising in northern Alberta. I would like to acknowledge the Western Cree of Treaty 8, from where I'm video conferencing, as well as the Algonquin people, on whose territory these hearing