After his 27-year-old son's suicide, Graham Clayton has vowed to push for changes to the country's doctor-assisted dying laws in order to prevent other Canadians from having to take their own lives. Late last year, as part of the assisted dying legislation enacted June 20, the government started work on an independent review to look at issues like mental illness. Fighting for his son's cause1:00Clayton did not know about his son's suicide until police informed him the next afternoon, saying his son did not want him implicated in his death. Before his death, Maier-Clayton spoke to several specialists and advocates of doctor-assisted dying, including Dr. Ellen Wiebe, professor in the faculty of medicine at the University of British Columbia. "When he asked me whether I could assist him, I said — first of all — he didn't qualify under our law because his natural death wasn't in the foreseeable future," she told CBC News.

Source: CBC News April 21, 2017 23:32 UTC