Medical Assistance in Dying committee  I'm happy to provide the evidence in writing afterwards, if that is helpful. What I was intending to say is that disabled people are dying en masse in institutions they had been fighting to leave. What I meant in saying that was that through the last century and a half, we've h

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Yes, but as Catherine was saying, there's a ripple effect. Not only are people dying because they qualify—yes, because they are disabled, and as a result they qualify—but also because of the ripple of the changes—

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Is the—?

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  I'm a person who lives with chronic unrelenting pain. I live a really wonderful, fantastic life that's made more difficult by the lack of access to pain management. No, I don't think that I should die because I have pain. I think I live a really great life. I think that disabled

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  If they're not at the end of their life, then no. It seems like this is an issue of pain management and access to pain medication.

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  We don't have access to the numbers because the MAID committee didn't look specifically at the use of institutionalization. That's despite my recommendation, in data collection stages, that they count those numbers. We are seeing that Canada is the number one global provider of

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  I would say the report that was provided statutorily is a really great place to look for numbers. I also think that the stories we hear from people and that are reported in papers are important to read, because, as I was saying in my presentation—

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Yes.

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Yes.

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Yes.

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  I do not think that a guaranteed income program would lessen the likelihood to request MAID. I think it could improve many people's lives, but I don't think it would result in the changes to the care system that would allow for people to live in communities or live the way they w

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  I don't think that someone being competent or having socio-economic supports means that they should kill themselves or let the state kill them.

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Thank you for that question. One of the challenges is that the government has not conducted a census on the institutional population since 1991 when it did the HALS institutional survey, the Health and Activity Limitation Survey. At that point it was beneficial to do that survey

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Yes. While we learned a little bit about what was happening in long-term care facilities through reporting through COVID-19, the other types of institutions for disabled people, particularly unregulated congregate settings like domiciliary hospitals, homes for special care and ot

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  I would respond to an individual who might make a well-informed decision to access MAID. I'm 27 and I'm disabled. Most of my classmates don't have disabilities, and they don't have access to MAID because they don't have disabilities. I have access to it, and they don't. What is