Dr. Heidi Janz:

I thank the Deputy for the questions. I am going to take the first one on how we progressed from the original legislation in 2015 to today. A big factor I am going to suggest in how we got from there to here is that the Canadian Government ignored disability rights activists who said that if we went beyond end of life, it would create this situation where a class of people is going to be considered essentially expendable if they have X, Y and Z. With all due respect to Dr. Downie, this is the reality for more and more disabled folk in Canada. My suggestion, to answer one of the other questions, is that if you feel like you need to legalise assisted death, you need to put ironclad guardrails in place saying that it is only for people at end of life.

Otherwise, you will end up in the same mess Canada is in. I am sorry but I forgot a couple of questions. Will you please remind me?