One in 10 Canadians knows someone who has been offered assisted suicide for a treatable condition, and nearly one in five knows someone who has died while on a wait list for medical treatment.

That’s according to a new Leger survey commissioned by the think tank Second Street.

A randomly selected survey group of 1,500 Canadians was asked if they or someone they knew had been offered a assisted suicide for a condition they felt was treatable.

Slightly more than one in 10 (11 per cent) replied “yes.”

The same group was also asked if they knew “someone who has died due to a long healthcare waitlist.” To this, 18 per cent said “yes.”

Another 37 per cent also attested to personally knowing someone “whose condition permanently worsened due to a long waitlist for treatment.”

The new numbers add to a growing archive of poll data showing that Canadians no longer trust their health system to treat them should they suffer a medical setback.