. >> reporter: canada's only quadriplegic member of parliament steven fletcher doesn't shy away fromges. a conservative he fights for sound public finances but also for respect for the disabled. and the right of terminally i'll doles to choose to end their lives with the help i've doctor. >> we are all going to die. and there are certain circumstances where end of life can be very miserable, a lot of suffering, a lot of pain, and because of the law in canada, there is no way to help those individuals end their lives. and it seems very cruel. >> reporter: fletcher, an athlete and outdoors man at the time, lost the use of his limbs in a car crash at the age of 23. the pain and suffering of recovery led to his support for physician assisted suicide. not that he would have chosen to die himself, he says, as a young man he still had time to succeed through cheer willpower. >> if my accident had happened when i was 83, they could have saved me and i could have gone through that, but would i go through that when i was 83? no. >> i was diagnosed as having a brain stem tumor -- >> reporter: l