Not one more: Charlie Angus, advocates set sights on suicide prevention strategy with M-174

Quebec is a world leader in suicide prevention, said academic Jack Hicks, but Canada is one of the only developed countries without a national suicide prevention strategy.

NDP MP Charlie Angus, his party's ethics and Indigenous youth critic, introduced M-174, which calls for a national suicide prevention action plan. It calls for addressing data gaps, which advocates say is a key issue to lowering suicide rates, among other changes. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY EMILY HAWS

June 4, 2018

NDP MP Charlie Angus is receiving support on his suicide-prevention motion, but instead of voting on it immediately, he wants to delay the vote for about a year and drum up a national conversation. The last thing Mr. Angus (Timmins-James Bay, Ont.) wants is another motion adopted by the House witho...

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