MAiD Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

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.

Claire Elyse Brosseau has been waiting years for the Canadian government to let her die.

The 49-year-old has struggled for decades with a laundry list of mental diagnoses, including Bipolar 1 disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and disordered eating. All of this has made her life unbearable, she says.

Canada’s bishops are calling on Catholics to contact their Members of Parliament before March 2027, when the country’s assisted suicide program is set to expand yet again, to cover mental illness as a sole qualifying condition.

The program, “Medical Aid in Dying” (MAiD), has drawn criticism from human rights advocates across the world. Since its legalization 10 years ago, over 60,000 Canadians have died by MAiD — including more than 5% of all Canadian deaths in 2024 alone.

HHS RFK JR. CALLS OUT Canada’s GOVERNMENT ASSISTED-DYING GENOCIDE

“I think those laws are abhorrent…what we see in Canada today…it’s their number one cause of death…”

Canada is ACTIVELY KILLING THEIR OWN CITIZENS

Canada officially EUTHANIZED more Citizens than Shelter Dogs pic.twitter.com/Z4twNtIjC3

— Liz Churchill (@liz_churchill10) April 22, 2026

H/T patthedog

OTTAWA – An expert on Canada’s assisted dying laws says a parliamentary committee studying MAID in cases of mental illness is not focused on its mandate and has not been balanced in its approach.

Jocelyn Downie is a professor emeritus of law at Dalhousie University who has studied assisted dying laws for decades.

She was a witness at the first meeting last month of senators and MPs studying whether Canada is ready to extend assisted dying to people whose sole underlying condition is a mental illness.

Ontario’s MAiD Death Review Committee (MDRC), which reviews and evaluates MAiD deaths in the province, is planning on making its committee “diverse” with fewer members.

This is according to the Ontario Solicitor General, Michael Kerzner, who says the committee will be shrunk by half, from 16 to eight members, and will include “diverse viewpoints,” as the Globe and Mail reports, based on documents dated early April it obtained.

There’s a disarming chill to seeing one portrait of the late Noelia Castillo that made the rounds once the 25-year-old gang assault victim and suicide attempter became the youngest Spaniard to be euthanized, legally, three weeks ago. Smiling coyly at the camera, her bulging eyes windows into a gentle soul, she appears to dwell in a timeless realm beyond pain and pleasure; her pallor shines a mystical glow, at once ghostly and angelic. Right-to-die advocates touting her ‘victory’ following a two-year lawsuit may be eased by her serene stare. Yet precisely in lieu of the ache and frailty that earned her passage to the afterlife, Noelia here exudes grit and vitality and resolve to overcome and sublimate. Her glare even seems to harbor clues of the life-and-death mystery, a lesson or epiphany she couldn’t have uttered in her earthly torment.

Canadian Argues Assisted Suicide Is Needed to Prevent Suicide

Canada is expected to expand its euthanasia services to people suffering from mental illness in 2027. MAiD activist Jocelyn Downie expressed her concern in a recent parliament hearing that withholding MAiD from people with mental illnesses will result in “more mentally ill Canadians dying by suicide.”

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Ontario is overhauling its body that reviews complex medically assisted deaths, narrowing its membership, scaling back its scope and shifting its role away from independent oversight toward supporting the system it is meant to scrutinize, according to documents obtained by The Globe and Mail.

Two former members say the proposed new version of the committee is designed to be less rigorous and to provide less oversight.

A new poll has revealed a “deep divide” among Canadians’ attitudes to Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID).

The online survey, conducted by ResearchCo., found that 41 per cent of Canadians think health-care professionals should be able to decline providing MAID services if they have a moral or faith-based objection.

One psychiatrist has deemed eating disorders and depression to be worthy of “a grievous and irremediable medical condition” qualifying someone for MAiD.

At a Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying (AMAD) in late March, Dr. Mona Gupta, a psychiatrist and professor at the University of Montreal, was asked by Conservative MP Andrew Lawton whether an eating disorder or depression would qualify.

“It depends on the circumstances of the person,” Gupta stated at first.