In a brief submitted to Canada’s special joint parliamentary committee on MAID three years ago, psychiatrist and bioethicist Scott Kim, a senior investigator with the U.S. National Institutes of Health, estimated Canada could see 2,500 to 5,000 requests for MAID for mental illness annually, and “not what the expansion advocates have suggested, which is that, ‘Oh, it’ll just be a handful,’” Gaind said. “There is no evidence supporting it will just be a handful.”