IN THE SUPREME COURT
BETWEEN: CHARLES WAITROSE Appellant and
REPUBLIC OF CANADA Respondent
APPELLANT SKELTON ARGUMENT _________________________________________________________________________
INTRODUCTION AND FACTUAL BACKGROUND
The agreed facts of the case as it was before the trial and first appellate court were that Florence Waitrose, 8, had been suffering from an inoperable malignant brain tumor for six months. Despite receiving significant amounts of medication to help abate her pain, she continued to suffer considerably in the terminal stages of her life. All other curative treatments had ceased, and she was being nursed at home by her parents. Her father, Charles Rose, under the feeling that neither he nor his daughter could cope any longer with ...