Thank you, Chair.
Thank you to both ministers.
My question is going to be for Minister Holland. This is an emotionally charged debate. I don't think anybody needs to apologize for demonstrating passion when they are discussing this.
I have been involved in this process since very early on, along with Mr. MacGregor, Mr. Cooper and others. We're dealing with a very specific issue and that is whether to postpone the implementation of MAID solely for the purpose of mental illness. We're not here to debate constitutionality. We're not here to debate advance requests. We can debate the morality. These discussions are going to take place in another context.
My question is this, and I put this to a witness earlier. I feel the only responsible thing that I as a legislator can do—and I think people around this table would agree with me—regardless of what side of the discussion I fall on, if I'm faced with a lack of consensus by professionals, is to postpone it to allow for further discussion.
There are two parts to my question. That's the first part. Do you agree with me? The second part is on the timeline. You have introduced a piece of legislation that postpones it for three years as opposed to indefinitely. Minister, you addressed this briefly earlier, but is the reason for doing that not to advance an agenda but to keep it on the agenda since, otherwise, it could just fall into never-never land?
Thank you.