Professor William Binchy:

Again, if one chooses to read the literature, may I refer the Senator to one article, if this is okay Chair, because that is a specific rider? If the Senator reads an article written this year and published in Palliative & Supportive Careby Coelho et al. on “The realities of Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada” she will find the people who are dying are not the rich and privileged. Of course they include the rich and privileged - there is no question about that - but they extend to the kind of people the Senator is rightly concerned about, the vulnerable people, people with mental illness and people with housing issues who are unable to find accommodation. Those are the people who, already in Canada, are being subjected to the law.