Lee MelissaMELISSA LEE (National): Thank you Madam Chair. I will start by admitting that I have never participated in this debate not one call during the first reading or the second reading. However I have taken part in some of the select committee proceedings and I have to say I want to thank everyone who participated who made submissions and actually came to the select committee to have their say. Hearing all those people whether they are on one end of the argument or the other I have to say they spoke with passion and they spoke with their heart. In this particular circumstance I have to say it is rather an emotional topic for me. I have a friend who is actually dying in hospital with cancer with days to go. On that note I'd like to acknowledge my friend Louisa Wall who lost her brother. My heart goes out to you.Look the topic of death is actually a taboo subject in my culture. We don't talk about it and this is the very reason why I didn't want to talk about it in the House. We don't talk about death just like we don't talk about sex. Funny—[Interruption] Yes we don't talk about these things. I mean these are issues that concern all of us and actually have a major impact on our life and yet we don't talk about them. But I took the courage to talk to the Korean community to find out how they actually felt about this particular issue.Their thinking is that this is actually not about end of life choice. This is actually about killing their loved ones particularly when David Seymour gets up from his seat and actually talks about what the Rt Hon David Carter—who actually questioned him in terms of the issue of coercion. And when he actually states that there is no proof in the history of euthanasia—that you cannot prove that there was coercion guess why? It is because people who have been coerced here are dead.I will tell you that on Monday this week I had to deal with a constituent whose daughter had coerced her into signing a power of attorney document and she has been ripping the parents off. They are now having to prove that they're competent enough to drive. They have to prove that they are mentally physically psychologically competent to deal with their own affairs. The daughter has taken their car. The daughter has taken tens of thousands of dollars from these parents. If we had this particular bill in place I worry what she would be doing to these parents.Her father has dementia. Her mother has had cancer. They're elderly people in their 80s. I fear for them if this bill becomes law in this country. I honestly did not come into this country and actually believe that I'd become a member of Parliament to vote for people for all of us to make a decision to kill another human being. This bill will in fact do that and I fear for the people in the ethnic communities who do not speak English as their first language. Often they can't even decide what to order for dinner. For David Seymour and his supporters to actually think that doctors can decide and be competent enough to talk to patients who are suffering and stressed out in the final days of their lives to decide in their stressful time in a foreign language that they can competently say that they want to be put to death I do not believe that they can.So I'd like to take this opportunity to move Supplementary Order Paper 269 in my name to replace the definition of attending medical practitioner" as well. I don't think a medical professional who just comes to a patient who is actually ill who is terminal can just decide that they can actually be put to death. I think they have to have a personal relationship with the patient for at least six months. They should have been attending for at least six months in my view. And they have to have a reason to—they must understand where these patients are actually coming from. And I do not actually believe that anyone—anyone—I certainly do not believe that I have the right to decide if I can put someone else another human being to death and I will not be voting for this. I cannot do it."