Canada’s assisted suicide law, known as MAiD, which has already killed over 40,000 Canadians since legalisation in 2016, is due to be expanded to mentally ill citizens in March 2024.
A special parliamentary committee in Canada will meet to reassess the expansion following an official memo warning that doctors in Quebec might not be respecting the limits of the law after a massive 54% rise in assisted suicides, including memo.
Numerous MAiD horror stories have emerged from Canada in recent years, including dozen veterans.
One doctor boasted of assisting in the deaths of 400 patients for reasons of helped kill 400 people through assisted suicide, while a disabled woman was granted assisted suicide because of her example of Canada.
Drugs addicts are now also under consideration, with one physician specialising in addiction stating that “it’s not fair to exclude people from eligibility purely because their mental disorder might either partly or in full be a substance use disorder. It has to do with treating people equally.”
“I don’t think it’s fair, and the government doesn’t think it’s fair”, said Dr David Martell.
SPUC comment
A SPUC spokesperson said: “State-sanctioned suicide is fast becoming the default response to the treatment of ‘problem’ patients in Canada. Rather than curing people, the instinct of the state and some doctors is to eliminate them.
“The ‘slippery slope’ is obvious, imposing assisted suicide on as many people as possible under the banner of equality, seeing patients as equally disposable. This is not medicine but a sickness that is slowly infecting Western medicine.
“As the Danish Ethics Council recently concluded, assisted suicide inherently endangers vulnerable groups. Far from being about equality, assisted suicide targets particular people for elimination and coldly ushers them into a premature grave.
“Britain, which is considering assisted suicide legislation, must wake up to its dangers before it is too late.”
