Justice committee  I'd like to talk about the advance directives. The minister recently said that those amendments will be looked at within the next five years—five years. The government may not be in place to be the government at that time. We need to look at advance care directives now, not five

Justice committee  You were talking about people being able to use chiropractors. I think we need to come to that decision on each individual case. If in fact the person's disability requires them to have a chiropractor, then chiropractors would be the most specific specialist the individual could

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  —but the system should be there.

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  What I was thinking of was that in the case of advance care directives, the person could change their mind, and that would be fine, but if you've gone as far as getting two physicians who are not pressured but are willing to assist and you have the consultation, the timeline is p

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  You could look at the suggestion that someone who is going forward must have the opinion of two physicians. They have to have met with the person. If we have it in place that they have to have an in-depth discussion with two physicians, that would be the most basic safeguard. It

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  No, I just wanted to support that.

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  I think it's very important that the same criteria for accessing assisted death should be the same criteria if you have a competent underage person. Those standards should be the same. I don't think you can draw a line on age, or say this is it and that's not it. It has to be tha

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  I agree with you. That's why I think Mr. Gunn said that we need to get the floor in now. We need to be able to speak to that, and then start to work on the other issues that are coming from the whole issue of assisted dying. I think we cannot delay, but we also can't rush with a

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  No, I'm fine.

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  No, that's fine. That explains our position.