Organ recipients push Doug Ford government to change donation rules [Video]

Hélène Campbell wants others to have a second chance at life now that she’s on her third.

The 34 year old has undergone two double-lung transplants — she calls herself a “French-Canadian double-double” — and believes a change in law can help save significantly more lives.

She, and other organ recipients, are now pushing Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government to change a law in order to help others in similar situations.

In mid-April, New Democrat health critic France Gélinas reintroduced her private member’s bill, the Peter Kormos Memorial Act, at Queen’s Park.

The bill proposes to make organ and tissue donation a procedure to opt out of while still alive rather than the current system that allows the living to opt in to donating organs upon death.

Consent to donate organs would still be required by parents or guardians for children under 16.

“I can’t begin to imagine what the …