MAiD Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

What does it look like when a country starts to die?

We can see it plainly when the death is catastrophic: when a nation succumbs to a hostile takeover, or to the forces of tyranny, corruption or lawlessness.
But what about when the soul of a nation starts to atrophy, slowly, in a manner that’s nearly undetectable at first? Maybe it starts with just a little ache – the niggling kind you can ignore when you’re out and about during the day. But when it’s nighttime and you’re alone, you wonder if that little ache might signal something far more pernicious.

According to LifeSiteNews, Ontario doctor James MacLean was given just six months’ probation by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) for scoping out and assessing a man outside a Tim Hortons coffeehouse and then personally driving him to his medically assisted death by fatal injection. He will be allowed to continue to practice under state supervision for those six months and after that is free to do what he does.

Instances of euthanasia — solicited, coerced, and delivered without permission — are becoming ever more common in the Great White North.

A 45-year-old Thomas Dillon, who suffered from Crohn’s disease, was medically euthanized in Canada by a doctor who deemed him fit to die after a quick assessment at a Tim Horton’s restaurant.

Canadians remain broadly supportive of the country’s original assisted dying law, but new polling suggests support weakens sharply when eligibility is expanded to include people who are not near death or those seeking MAiD for mental illness alone.

A new Angus Reid Institute survey released Monday found 77% of Canadians still support the original 2016 Medical Assistance in Dying framework, which applied to people whose deaths were reasonably foreseeable and who were suffering from a severe and irremediable condition.

(Incognito)

We were warned.

There’s been a great deal of media attention this week on the professional discipline meted out to a Canadian physician who dispensed Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) with what appears to have been an extraordinarily casual approach to the job. As the Toronto newspaper The Globe and Mail first reported, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario found that Dr. James MacLean medically assessed a Crohn’s Disease patient for euthanasia at a Tim Horton’s coffee shop, then later gave him a ride to the euthanasia facility. As the Globe and Mail also reported, “Dr. MacLean administered the lethal medications in a room at a holding facility in an industrial unit where cadavers are prepared for transport to funeral homes.”

An Ontario doctor has been placed under supervision by the provincial physicians regulator after an investigation into his MAID practice found that he crossed professional boundaries and failed to adhere to protocols – including in one case where inadequate medication caused a patient to resume breathing after the doctor pronounced him dead and left.

The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario reviewed two complaints against Dr. James MacLean relating to two 2024 medical assistance in dying cases and conducted a broader probe into his general medical practice that included a review of his charts.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Emergency rooms are known for long waits — whether in Canada or south of the border — but they’re still among the shortest delays in health care.

Seeing a specialist, however, can take months, sometimes leaving nervous Canadians languishing as they await treatment, surgery, or both. In the U.S., the wait times are shorter, but access may be limited by one’s ability to procure and pay for insurance.

In Canada its already open season on the “bothersome”.

Claire Brosseau has travelled the world doing stand-up comedy and acting in television shows, films and plays. She has also been struggling with debilitating mental illness from a young age, and has been treated by psychiatrists in four major North American cities over three decades.

Brosseau has tried nearly every treatment available to people like herself with bipolar disorder and PTSD, she said, from behavioral therapy and medication to electric shocks to the brain.

OTTAWA—Under pressure to stop the expansion of medical assistance in dying for mental illness alone, the Carney government says it won’t make a decision before a parliamentary review is complete.

“I think it would be premature for us to declare a position on the next steps when the group that we’ve actively tasked to consider this issue in depth is doing their work, I’d like to give them space to complete the study, and then we’ll be in a position to consider all the perspectives as we finalize our position,” Justice Minister Sean Fraser said.

As Canada mulls a controversial plan to allow medical assistance in dying (MAID) for mental illnesses, the country’s current model is facing a new round of attacks, both at home and abroad.

There is rampant misinformation about MAID, such as when Joe Rogan recently told Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre that a Canadian man received the procedure for “seasonal depression.” MAID for mental illness is not allowed in Canada, but that is set to change in March 2027.

The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, which began life in October 2024 as a private member’s bill, has finally collapsed under the weight of its own contradictions after 18 torturous months.

At least the UK got This right.