Medical Assistance in Dying committee  I sent it this morning. You may not have received it in time for the meeting.

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  I do see a difference between palliative care and medical assistance in dying, for a variety of reasons, and I think there are a lot of important members of the palliative care community who really feel distinctly uncomfortable with medical assistance in dying. I think it's impor

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  I'll answer your first question. Thank you very much, Senator Kutcher. As you indicate, a large majority of end-of-life care, and palliative care as well, can be provided by non-specialists. I think that as the complexity of symptoms increases you should involve experts and spec

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  I absolutely think we do need to continue to redouble our efforts to improve the quantity and quality of palliative care that Canadians receive. As a rule, most Canadians can and should be getting palliative care approaches integrated earlier than they currently are. I think it's

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Okay. I had better just wrap it up, my final point here being that if we're going to talk about the vulnerable and the socially deprived, I think we need to emphasize that there are really important things that we as a society and we as a Parliament can do to help those people—t

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Thank you.

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Thank you very much. I'll try to keep my comments as brief as I can. I've already sent in some notes for people to follow. I'm the head of the division of palliative care at the University of Ottawa. I have a clinical research chair in palliative and end-of-life care and a mas