Thank you, Mr. Chair.
People with a chronic mental disorder will have faced stigma and discrimination throughout their lives, so much so that even someone from a comfortable background will live out their years and probably have little when they die. People with a serious chronic mental disorder usually can't find a job because they are victims of discriminatory hiring and so on. The legal experts will argue that they are aware of the situation and that it's unfortunate. However, as a government, we think that the public interest warrants discrimination against those individuals when it comes to their ability to decide when they have reached their breaking point—the point at which they can no longer tolerate their suffering.
Legal experts have told us that, if the government opted to completely exclude people with chronic mental illness for whom treatment is unavailable, it would amount to discrimination and would not pass the test under section 1 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
What do you think?
I'm not sure what's happening. No one seems to have understood my question.
Will I get more time?