Dr. Leonie Herx:

Professor Downie has made an important distinction. The data we have from Health Canada is self-reported by MAID providers. There is no way to clarify whether a person received palliative care. It could be the information they got about palliative care in terms of its availability is from the main provider. People only know what they are told by the person informing them. We have very poor data and those claims have been refuted by palliative care experts in our country. The facts do not exist to reassure us that everyone has had palliative care provided. Being informed about it is not the same as receiving palliative care.