“Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for Côte-Nord—Kawawachikamach—Nitassinan very much. Earlier, I asked her colleague a question about the trusted third person, which is a feature of Quebec’s law, but I did not have time to elaborate. One of the things this bill requires is that, at the moment when MAID is provided, the patient’s suffering must be enduring and intolerable. It is not clear whether mental suffering would count. It does under Quebec’s law, because the trusted third person could say, for example, that their relative needs it and does not want to live with that suffering. I would like to hear my colleague’s thoughts on the trusted third person concept, which is not present in—”
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Positioning 53%The ask 47%
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Mr. Speaker, Positioning · 35 wordssince we are talking about things that the members opposite consider to be vague and uncertain, I will let the Quebec National Assembly have that discussion.I think the Bloc Québécois has been quite clear.PositioningThe ask · 39 wordsThe first thing that we are calling for is not to exclude people with mental health issues.1We are asking to debate that issue.2We are also asking that the federal framework not be more restrictive than Quebec’s framework.3Positioning · 9 wordsThat is what we are calling for right now.PositioningPartly on point
