Chamber and committees

We have a final question for both of you, if that is okay. I appreciate that you have stayed a bit longer than you had initially agreed to.

No, I am not alluding to any comments. It is a question that I asked colleagues from Australia.

The second item on our agenda is our continuing scrutiny of the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill at stage 1. Today, we have an evidence-taking session with people who are involved in the application of assisted dying law in Canada. All of our witnesses are appearing remotely.

I welcome Dr Ramona Coelho, who is a physician and member of the medical assistance in dying death review committee of Ontario, Canada, and who joins us in a personal capacity and not on behalf of any organisation. I also welcome Dr Stefanie Green, who is a medical assistance in dying practitioner, founding president of the Canadian Association of MAiD Assessors and Providers—CAMAP—and an adviser to the British Columbia Ministry of Health. I thank you both for joining us today.

We will move straight to questions, the first of which is from Paul Sweeney.

I call Emma Harper.

I call Sandesh Gulhane.

I call Elena Whitham.

If the medication was not totally efficacious, would that information be recorded in all states?

The second item on our agenda is a decision on whether to take agenda item 6 in private. Do members agree to take that item in private?

Members indicated agreement.

The third item on our agenda is our first evidence session as part of our scrutiny at stage 1 of the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill.

We begin our scrutiny by considering the implementation of assisted dying in other jurisdictions. The first session is with witnesses who are involved in the application of assisted dying law in Victoria in Australia. I welcome to the committee Julian Gardner, who is the chairperson of the voluntary assisted dying review board, and Professor Ben White, who is professor of end-of-life law and regulation at the Australian centre for health law research. We have received apologies from Katherine Waller, who is the project manager for voluntary assisted dying training at the Australian centre for health law research.

We move straight to questions.

Professor White, do you want to add anything to that?