Why the ‘right to die’ is an affront to humanity.
MAiD Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
Father asks court to stop 27-year-old Autistic daughter’s MAID death, review doctors’ sign-off
The father of a 27-year-old woman who has been approved for Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) has asked a Calgary judge to dig into the circumstances that led to two of three doctors approving his daughter’s application.
A publication ban protects the identities of the parties and the medical professionals. CBC News will identify the daughter as M.V. and the father as W.V.
At issue is whether the courts can step in when family members, with no legal standing, have concerns about the MAID approval process.
Were those warehouses at Auschwitz called “Kanada” as a warning?
Canada Pauses Plans to Euthanize the Mentally Ill
Canada has taken step after step to expand citizens’ access to euthanasia ever since 2016, when it first legalized the practice it euphemistically labeled “medical assistance in death,” or MAID.
Officials recently announced that the Canadian government will be delaying a further expansion of the program, which would have allowed those suffering from mental illness to commit suicide. The expansion, which was slated to take effect on March 17, will not be considered again until March 2027.
Canada’s assisted dying laws in spotlight as expansion paused again
When Canada’s justice minister announced plans to legalise medically assisted dying nearly a decade ago, she acknowledged the proposed law might prove divisive. “For some, medical assistance in dying will be troubling,” Jody Wilson-Raybould told reporters in 2016. “For others, this legislation will not go far enough.”
A fresh delay in expanding the scope of who can access a medically assisted death has once again put a spotlight on the system, which critics and advocates agree is one of the most liberal in the world. But the two groups remain sharply divided on what that means for improving the quality of life – and death – in the country.
Brian Bird: Sanctuaries from euthanasia must be protected
The story of euthanasia in Canada continues to be written. A developing angle of this story is whether faith-based health-care facilities — and by extension any health-care facility — can decline to offer euthanasia, on the view that this practice is a type of killing and therefore unconnected to health care.
This issue flared up last summer, when St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver declined to provide euthanasia to a terminal patient, who was ultimately transferred to a facility that would perform euthanasia.
42% Of Canadians Support Euthansia For Chronic Mental Illness
… While 77 per cent of Canadians surveyed by the Leger polling firm support Canada’s current medical assistance in dying policy, only 42 per cent could get behind expanding the eligibility to people who suffer exclusively from intractable mental-health conditions.
Zekveld: Canada will never be ready to expand assisted death to those with mental illness
Early in 2023, the federal government introduced legislation to delay the expansion of MAiD for mental illness by one year, to March 17, 2024. Then, recently, the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying recently tabled its report, MAID and Mental Disorders: The Road Ahead. Instead of a delay of one or even two years, the majority of the committee recommended an indefinite delay, until the ministers of health and justice are satisfied “that it can be safely and adequately provided.”
Poilievre promises to revoke expansion of medical assistance in dying for mental illnesses
OTTAWA – Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is promising to revoke the planned expansion of medical assistance in dying (MAID) for people suffering solely from mental illnesses if he forms government.
“We will not expand MAID to include mental illness. So, where Justin Trudeau has delayed this decision until after the election, we will revoke it entirely,” he told reporters on Thursday in Vancouver, B.C.
Kill Crazy Trudeau Government halts assisted suicide program for mentally ill due to lack of willing executioners
Canada has delayed the extension of its assisted suicide program to people suffering solely from mental illness, health officials announced Monday.
Canada offers medically assisted death to terminally and chronically ill people, but the plan to extend the program to people with mental illnesses has divided Canadians, the New York Times reported. Some critics attribute the problem to a lack of adequate psychiatric care in the country.
The controversial policy would allow anyone in Canada with an incurable medical condition to apply for assisted suicide, even if the disease is not terminal, which makes the law one of the most liberal assisted suicide programs in the world.
Don’t for a minute think Trudeau’s government will stop at voluntary euthanasia.
Scully: Why I so desperately need a medically assisted death
It’s wrong to stop people from accessing MAiD for mental illness as a sole underlying condition. I deserve the same rights as other patients.
A special joint committee of MPs and senators has tabled its report to Parliament, recommending a delay in expanding the health-care system to offer medical assistance in dying (MAiD) for persons with mental disorders as their sole underlying medical condition. On Thursday, federal Health Minister Mark Holland introduced legislation to postpone this expansion of MAiD until March 2027.
Liberals introduce legislation to delay expansion of Aktion T4 until 2027
The Liberal government introduced legislation Thursday that will delay the expansion of assisted dying to include those suffering solely from mental illness to 2027.
Health Minister Mark Holland introduced the legislation and Justice Minister Arif Virani told reporters that the delay was needed until Canada’s health-care system is ready to implement the expansion.
“Because of the significance of the decision, because of the nature of the consequences of this kind of policy; we have to ensure that we get it right, and we’re determined to do just that,” Virani said.
EUTHANASIA PROGRAM AND AKTION T4
The goal of the Nazi Euthanasia Program was to kill people with mental and physical disabilities. In the Nazi view, this would cleanse the “Aryan” race of people considered genetically defective and a financial burden to society.
The Liberal Party’s zeal for the state sanctioned murder of the “unfit” is not unique in history.
Canada Contemplates Offering Euthanasia To 12-Year Old Children
“Canada is only weeks away from legalizing assisted suicide for Canadians whose only underlying condition is mental illness. There are reports that assisted death is already being offered to Canadians who are suicidal.”
“And MAID advocates are already speaking openly about extending physician-assisted death to children as young as 12.”
Surge in medically assisted deaths under Canada’s MAID program outpaces every other country
The number of Canadians ending their lives through medically assisted death has grown at a speed that outpaces every other nation in the world.
As Canada is poised to expand eligibility criteria under medical assistance in dying (MAID) legislation, data from all 11 countries where the controversial end-of-life treatment exists shows Canada is the fastest-growing adopter in history, an analysis by the Investigative Journalism Bureau and the Toronto Star has found.
Trudeau can make people want to kill themselves.
h/t RH
Canada has revealed the horror of assisted dying
‘Assisted dying’, as it is euphemistically called, is often sold as a more compassionate, civilised alternative to suffering at the end of life. Those still gripped by this delusion should take a look at Justin Trudeau’s Canada, where so-called assisted dying has become a gruesome, state-sanctioned industry.
Death by Doctor May Soon Be Available for the Mentally Ill in Canada
Canada already has one of the most liberal assisted death laws in the world, offering the practice to terminally and chronically ill Canadians.
But under a law scheduled to take effect in March assisted dying would also become accessible to people whose only medical condition is mental illness, making Canada one of about half a dozen countries to permit the procedure for that category of people.
That move has divided Canadians, some of whom view it as a sign that the country’s public health care system is not offering adequate psychiatric care, which is notoriously underfunded and in high demand.
Good news for Trudeau voters!
Assisted dying is a slippery slope – just look at the US, Canada and Holland
The Church of England has warned that countries where assisted dying is legal have shown that it can lead to a “slippery slope” where it becomes easier and easier to get help to end one’s life.
In a submission to MPs, the Church said that when the law had been changed in other countries, such as Canada and the US, stringent safeguards had been dropped over time, opening up assisted dying to more and more people.
Canada has become world famous for a lot of crappy things under Trudeau.