Logan Tozer, 18, left home in Havelock, Ont., in the middle of the night, travelled 35 kilometres north through wooded areas and got lost trying to get back home, his mom said.
Hamilton MPP Monique Taylor's private members bill would implement a system of alerts for vulnerable people such as children with autism or seniors with dementia, similar to Amber Alerts. When Jenny Tozer's 18-year-old son with autism had been missing for more than two weeks, she started to prepare herself for the worst.
He was eventually found in an abandoned building on the 17th day of his disappearance — "safe with only three tick bites and an adventure to tell," Tozer said — but the outcome could have easily been tragic, she said." trying to figure out how I was going to hold it together for all his siblings, because they couldn't understand why he wasn't home either, and they weren't sleeping," Tozer said Wednesday at a press conference.
Tozer is now adding her voice to others calling on the government to create a new type of alert for vulnerable people. "We're here today to let the government know that we'll do whatever it takes to ensure this passage, whether it's sharing the bill with a member of the government — take the bill, make it your own, it doesn't matter," Taylor said Wednesday.The bill was inspired by the stories of Draven Graham, a boy with autism who drowned in 2022 after going missing, and Shirley Love, a senior who died in December of that year after leaving her home not dressed for winter weather.
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