Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faces difficult questions at town hall in Halifax
HALIFAX — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faced difficult questions from the crowd at a town hall in the Halifax area Tuesday, including from a member of the navy who has ALS and from the mother of a boy with severe autism.
A man with ALS who identified himself as the father of two young children and a member of the navy asked Trudeau why he doesn’t have the right to try experimental drugs to fight his terminal illness.
“If it is my right to be able to choose death due to my terminal illness, why am I not allowed the right to try experimental drugs that have passed the Phase 1 medical study in Canada?” the man said during the question-and-answer session at a school gym in the Halifax suburb of Lower Sackville, pointing to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms section on the right to life.
“Why are my only options to die now, or wait to die, when what I want is the right to try?”