OTTAWA—It was more than a year ago when Member of Parliament Borys Wrzesnewskyj first introduced his groundbreaking draft law aimed at fighting the harrowing underground trade in human organs and other body parts for transplant.
The private member’s bill would make it illegal for Canadians to purchase organs or body parts or obtain them from unwilling victims, whether inside or outside Canada.
The bill intended to address the exploitation of vulnerable people in developing countries who sell their organs for money, as well as prisoners in totalitarian regimes whose organs are extracted without consent and sold.
The bill died on the order paper when the last parliament dissolved and an election was called, but the gruesome trade is a growing global problem that’s as lucrative as ever.
