Thank you, Madam Chair.
Dr. Beck, surely you've read the expert panel report on mental disorders, which says that it's good medical practice to exhaust all available treatments and means to achieving a cure and then establish beyond the shadow of a doubt how chronic the disorder is.
Dr. Verhagen, I'm going to include you even though you're not a psychiatrist, because this also applies more broadly.
If a mature minor ends up in this situation, it's because nothing else can be done, and that's mostly the case for track one patients in the end-of-life phase who are already in the process of dying. A mature minor patient in the palliative care continuum could suddenly decide to request MAiD.
If this committee were to recommend that only track one mature minors be allowed to access MAiD, don't you think we would be hitting the nail squarely on the head?