The mentally ill and consenting minors in Canada should be allowed to choose physician-assisted suicide, a federal parliamentary committee recommended.The committee’s 70-page report was introduced in the House of Commons on February 25.A Supreme Court of Canada decision — known as the Carter case — unanimously struck down the Criminal Code of Canada’s ban on physician-assisted suicide to mentally competent but suffering and “irremediable†patients. Provisions of the decision took effect in February, but the committee’s recommendations would expand the current law.The parliamentary report recommends allowing physician-assisted suicide for people with psychiatric conditions, opens the way for “mature†children younger...