Medical Assistance in Dying committee  That's pretty clear. Suicide rates didn't go down, to your knowledge, when MAID was being discussed in the public domain. My question now is for our other witness. It's on psilocybin. We know that for psilocybin, there's an emerging database for its use in palliative care, and t

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  That's what I heard you say, but we're talking about MAID here, so I'm asking you this question. I don't want the panel to be misguided. What proportion of people seeking MAID for mental illness are cured or effectively treated by psilocybin?

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  But in the United States—

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  What does it say?

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  We're talking about MAID, not just chronic anxiety disorders, because that's not the MAID universe. People who are seeking MAID—

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  That's not the universe for MAID. We're talking about MAID, so let's focus on MAID. For the people seeking MAID—that's the question—what is the evidence that psilocybin is effective in treating them?

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  If you, as an assessor, are not certain about whether the person is suicidal or if you're not certain about whether the person has the capacity to provide free and informed consent, what's your standard procedure? How do you go ahead?

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Please give a very short answer to my first question, Dr. Mishara. In your testimony you talked about MAID assessments. Have you ever conducted a MAID assessment?

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Thank you very much. That's fine, Dr. Mishara. We're talking about MAID, sir. Mr. Chair, could you ask Dr. Mishara to provide to this committee in writing, in a timely manner, the evidence for a couple of the assertions he made? He was talking about conducting MAID assessments,

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Thank you so much. For Dr. Smith, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada has standards for psychiatric competencies, and in those competencies they expect a psychiatrist to be able to conduct capacity assessments, competency assessments and cognitive performance

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Thank you very much, Chair. I'm going to share with you a case that I know. I'd like to hear from Dr. Boisvert and Dr. Thorpe on this. Here's a person with stage 7 dementia. They are unable to self-toilet. They smear their feces on the wall or eat them. They do not recognize th

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Before I start my three minutes, I would ask that Dr. Ferrier provide us with evidence to support the statement about elder abuse through the forgery of advance directives. We'd like to see the research for that, please. These questions are for

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Yes, I have. Thank you very much.

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I have two questions for Ms. Chalifoux. The first one is this: Do you think the fact that concerns have been raised about how advance requests are managed in some countries is a valid reason for advance requests to be prohibited in Canada, or do

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Before I ask my questions, I wonder, Mr. Chair, if you could request some information from Mr. Bach: a written note to this committee providing the data that documented the evidence to support the statement he made that stigma is driving advance