George Scott Wallace

George Scott Wallace (9 August 1929 – 15 October 2011) was a British Columbia physician and politician.

Wallace was born in Leven, Fife, Scotland, and attended the Edinburgh University Medical School from 1947 to 1952. Wallace came to Canada in 1957 and opened a general practice in Victoria in 1961. He served as an alderman from 1967 to 1969 on the Oak Bay Municipal Council and was elected in the 1969 general election as a Social Credit Member of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly for Oak Bay. and was re-elected as a Tory in the 1972 general election. He was elected leader of the party in 1973, after the previous party leader failed to win a seat, and retired from the legislature on 31 December 1977 in order to return to his medical practice.

In 1993, he announced that he was willing to help terminally ill Sue Rodriguez end her life if the courts rejected her attempt to challenge the law banning assisted suicide. Rodriguez died in February 1994 with the assistance of an anonymous physician.

Wallace died, aged 82, in Victoria, British Columbia.