Professor Jocelyn Downie:

I do not think so. What is getting blurred there is the delivery of palliative care in a variety of different contexts, for one thing. One of the things we have seen is that, for those going through the process of MAID, there is this 95% rate which is higher than people out in community who are perhaps not interested in MAID, those whose life circumstances are such that they could benefit from palliative care but who are not ready for MAID or do not want it. A lot of those numbers just got blurred together. I do think we can take great comfort in the 95%. We have to be careful about this notion that they are just self-reported. All deaths are reviewed in 90% of cases. We have British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario and Quebec, which are the most populated provinces in the country.