dr chantal perrot has been a maid assessor and provider since 2016, when it first became available.ears. i don't think of it as killing someone. when i provide maid, i do end a life, but it's at the person's request and it's a clear and consistent request on their part for their suffering to end. and i consider it a tremendous honour and a privilege to meet people at that stage of their lives and to be able to help them. i think people have a very rudimentary idea of what mental health is in canada. there's a very strong mentality of, "oh, if theyjust worked "harder, if they pull themselves up by their "bootstraps, they would be able to get on with it," and it's just not like that. i think a lot of people don't understand that aspect of it, just how debilitating it can be to live with a mental disorder. can people with these disorders live and enjoy life? absolutely. but some cannot. and again, it's those few people who cannot, who are suffering intolerably, who deserve the right to be assessed for maid. there have been people that have been waiting and hoping since 2016 to be able