Assisted suicide law needs to allow advance requests, says Svend Robinson

The absence of an advance request in the section of the Criminal Code that allows assisted dying is being described by Svend Robinson as “cruel and unjust.”
Robinson, who will be running later this year as an NDP candidate in the federal riding of Burnaby North-Seymour, called on Ottawa to change the law and add advance requests before the next federal election to honour the memory of Sue Rodriguez, the Saanich woman who rose to national fame during her fight for assisted s