Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Thank you, joint chairs and honourable members of this committee, for the opportunity to participate in these hearings. I urge the committee not to recommend adoption of advance requests for MAID for three main reasons. First, advance requests as a planning tool cannot deliver

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  I certainly accept that people live with grievous and irremediable conditions that cause them immense suffering. Some of that is motivated by lack of supports, but I know that in many situations that's not the case. I guess my point this evening is that it's very problematic to

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  I think they're quite different. Advance requests or directives for withholding treatment are about things that aren't going to be done to us. All of the examples listed earlier by Dr. Andrew were about things that you refuse to have happen to you. We've provided for that under