Ottawa should start drafting new law on assisted suicide: Editorial, When Canadians go to the polls later this year they aren’t likely to reward Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Conservative government for dragging out the process of crafting a new law on physician-assisted suicide. The country needs an updated law, and soon.
After debating the issue for a generation most Canadians, 80 per cent, have come around to the view that desperately suffering people should be entitled to get help ending their lives, within strict limits.
And the Supreme Court agrees. On Feb. 6 it struck down Canada’s absolute prohibition on assisted suicide as unconstitutional, and gave the government a year to come up with something better....Read More
After debating the issue for a generation most Canadians, 80 per cent, have come around to the view that desperately suffering people should be entitled to get help ending their lives, within strict limits.
And the Supreme Court agrees. On Feb. 6 it struck down Canada’s absolute prohibition on assisted suicide as unconstitutional, and gave the government a year to come up with something better....Read More
