Dr. Miriam Colleran:

I am speaking from the perspective of international data. When we look at what is happening in Canada, in Quebec, there is now no publicly funded healthcare service that is, as they call it, euthanasia-free.

The provision of medical assistance in dying, MAiD, is linked to public health funding, so an institution cannot opt out. Regarding what Dr. Molloy was alluding to concerning hospices in Canada, there have been situations, and a particular hospice that jumps to mind is Delta hospice, which did not want to provide MAiD, as it is termed in Canada, on site. This hospice, to put it into context, was just adjacent to an acute hospital, so if a person had wished, he or she could have gone to that acute hospital to avail of MAiD. The hospice, though, was defunded because it would not provide medical assistance in dying and euthanasia on site, and it was taken over.