OTTAWA - As Jocelyn Downie watched the Supreme Court of Canada strike down the laws criminalizing the act of helping someone end their life in 2015, she thought she’d better find something to do with the rest of her career.

The push to ensure Canadians could legally get help to end their own lives in cases of severe suffering seemed to be over with the unanimous decision in Carter v. Canada.

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