Justice committee  One of the things we have now—and it's partly one of the gifts of COVID—is a much better integrated network of providers, facilitated partly by virtual types of support. One of the things we've also heard from clinicians is that often they're dealing with complex patients, and i

Justice committee  What I was trying to suggest is that, when we think about introducing safeguards, we need to think further down the road, not just about protection but also about the possible impact and implications. What we have learned is that the 10-day waiting period had the unintended and

Justice committee  I think it's well recognized that individuals entering into a profession are acting from conscience, whether it is to provide and assess, or not to participate at all in medical assistance in dying. It's important for us to continue to protect the conscience of professionals in g

Justice committee  In fact, I must confess that I thought it was far more robust than I might have anticipated and probably even more robust than what we saw in previous conversations about medical assistance in dying. From that perspective, I think there were multiple opportunities for folks to w

Justice committee  I don't think we have strong evidence to support that being the case, but we do know that if we look at the the most recent reporting in Canada on the reasons that people might seek MAID under those circumstances, we see that these individuals are already eligible. They've reache

Justice committee  One thing we might want to keep in mind is that, in fact, both of the two tracks recognized suffering as a primary motivation for somebody to be seeking MAID, except in the one case when it's a situation where somebody has already been very clearly found eligible and is concerned

Justice committee  I think there are a few things here. One is to recognize that we often think about autonomy as individual, but many of our decisions are made in thinking about the people around us. It's a social concept of autonomy, which we all experience in our day-to-day lives. I think there

Justice committee  My apologies, Madam Chair. I thought the question was directed to Dr. Naud.

Justice committee  Thank you.

Justice committee  Thank you so much for the invitation to join you today. As noted, I'm affiliated with the University of Toronto, but in 2015 I co-chaired the provincial-territorial expert advisory group on physician-assisted dying. In 2017-18, I was co-chair of the Council of Canadian Academies'

Justice committee  Through our own consultation, what we heard from multiple actors and stakeholders was that this is provincial jurisdiction, and that is the right place for it. It's also a regulatory role. The regulatory bodies are designed for serving the public interest. There are mechanisms

Justice committee  No, I just want to concur with my colleague.

Justice committee  Some of my current concerns are about the way in which, in a sense, the shift from the Carter decision to Bill C-14 seems to have been motivated by a real concern about vulnerable populations. We've heard from Mr. Arvay this morning about this having led to certain exclusions of

Justice committee  I struggled a bit with whether or not we must require a palliative care consult in all cases. Indeed, if we look at what clinical practice actually looks like these days, you might have a patient before you and, given the needs of that patient, you might bring in any number of co

Justice committee  Thank you. Good morning everyone, and thank you so much for the invitation to join you. As some of you may know, I co-chaired the provincial-territorial expert advisory group on physician-assisted deaths. Most recently I've been working with the Joint Centre for Bioethics task f