Justice committee  That's right. When you write an advance directive and you write it when you are competent, and then you lose competence, this advance directive should remain the last statement you made while you were competent.

Justice committee  I don't know that Carter used the words “contemporaneous consent”; the consent has to be clear. If you have a clear and detailed advance directive about a future state that you know would be unacceptable to you when you consider that future state, would cause you intolerable pai

Justice committee  Carter didn't deal with advance directives at all. It said there had to be clear consent.

Justice committee  I want to step in now and address the second point in our brief, which is advance requests for medical aid to die. Bill C-14 ignores recommendation 7 of the special joint committee, which would permit advance requests for someone diagnosed with a condition likely to cause loss

Justice committee  Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Chair, for the privilege of appearing before the committee this evening. I'm Françoise Hébert, chair of End of Life Planning Canada. Before retiring four years ago to become a full-time volunteer, I was the CEO of the Alzheimer Society of To