Canadian Senate Passes Bill to Combat Organ Harvesting and Organ Trafficking

Today, MP Garnett Genuis held a press conference with Senator Salma Ataullahjan on Bill S-240, which has just been passed by the Senate with unanimous, multi-partisan consent. Bill S-240 creates new offences with regard to organ harvesting and organ trafficking abroad. This Bill will grant new protections to ethnic and religious minorities – such as those who…

Irwin Cotler Aims to Curb Gruesome Trade

By Epoch Times PARLIAMENT HILL, Ottawa—Liberal MP Irwin Cotler has introduced a bill to crackdown on those who trade in human organs, take part in organ harvesting, or get a transplant without making sure the organs were willingly donated. With the relative ease of organ transplants, a new and gruesome trade has arisen around the life-and-death…