Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Thank you very much for that. I certainly agree with your comments about training and the role of people with lived experience. Dr. Stewart, I'm going to share a quote with you from The Globe and Mail of something an individual has said, and I'd like you to respond to the statem

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Okay. In a brief submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs in February 2021, Sheppard and Jones of McGill addressed the access to MAID. They wrote: The express exclusion of persons with mental illnesses undermines substantive equality by r

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  That's in reference to medicine. It's not unique to psychiatric cases.

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  It was on whether that statement about substantive equality perpetuates stereotypes and disadvantages people with a mental illness.

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  In terms of that particular perspective, could it be possible that a physician or a psychiatrist who feels that a person who is completely competent and may make a decision about MAID could be stigmatizing that person, maybe inadvertently, that they are not competent or that they

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Unfortunately, I was held up at a previous engagement and wasn't here to hear the full testimony of the witnesses. Therefore, I think it would be quite inappropriate for me to ask questions about testimony that I did not hear.

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I have a few questions for Dr. Montes. The first three are very short—I'd like factual information for those—and then there's one I'd like your thoughts on. MAID for mature minors has been available in some countries for a number of years. Can yo

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  In those countries, how many young people have received MAID annually?

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  That would be great. In that group of people, how many young people received MAID while in a mental health crisis?

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Can you get them?

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Great. Thank you. In your pediatric practice, let's say you have a young person who has decision-making capacity. That person has a glioblastoma multiforme at grade IV. For the group here, that's the worst kind of cancer. You don't want to have that one. Their parents support th

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Excuse me. We have very limited time. Do you respect that child's and their parents' decision not to take treatment for a glioblastoma multiforme at grade IV?

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Wait a second. I'm sorry. I'm not asking about MAID. I'm asking if you accept their decision not to seek treatment for the glioblastoma.

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Yes.

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  No. I'm sorry. This is not lack of access to care. It's a simple question. This is a competent patient who refuses treatment for terminal cancer. Would you accept that patient's decision—and that of the parents? Answer yes or no.