MAiD Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

A Canadian doctor who’s personally euthanized more than 400 people said she helped kill a man who was previously deemed unsuitable for assisted suicide.

Ellen Wiebe, a doctor who works with Dying With Dignity Canada, boasted in a seminar for physicians working in assisted suicide about the time she treated a patient who did not qualify for the end of life service.

A Medical Assistance In Dying (MAID) assessor had rejected the unnamed man because he did not have a serious illness or ‘the capacity to make informed decisions about his own personal health.’

Experts at odds over delay in expansion of medically-assisted dying system

Leading experts involved in developing an expansion of Canada’s medically assisted dying regime to people whose sole underlying condition is a mental disorder are at odds over whether the expansion should be delayed.

One expert says a delay would ease pressure on the “rushed process” of developing practice guidelines for the complex cases, saying that training modules for practitioners won’t be ready until the end of this year or early next year at the earliest. But another expert says more waiting is not necessary.

The Trudeau government has taken deception, duplicity and disingenuousness to levels that would draw admiration from Josef Stalin. But nothing is as galling as seeing Veteran Affairs Minister Lawrence MacAulay’s shameful political posturing with veterans.

IN his last homily before becoming Pope Benedict XVI in 2005, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger coined the phrase ‘a dictatorship of relativism.’

In his sermon, he said: ‘We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognise anything as definitive, and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one’s own ego and desires.’

Proponents of the philosophy of relativism claim to believe that there is no truth; you have your beliefs and I have mine. And it seems as though we are seeing Benedict’s warning come to pass in Canada.

The Veterans Affairs Canada employee who discussed medical assistance in dying (MAID) with at least four veterans is no longer employed at the department, Global News has learned.

A spokesperson for Veterans Affairs Minister Lawrence MacAulay’s office confirmed the information Tuesday, after a protracted labour relations process was resolved this week.

Patients are now seeking death because they cannot afford to live

Since Canada’s euthanasia regime broke into the global public consciousness earlier this year, people across the world have been horrified by stories of ordinary Canadians choosing to die at the hands of a doctor instead of carrying on living in poverty, of disabled Canadians told to kill themselves by bureaucrats, and of plans to extend euthanasia access to the mentally ill and to “mature minors”.

But until now, defenders of Canada’s MAiD (medical assistance in dying) regime have pushed back aggressively, accusing their critics of spreading disinformation, or worse.

What started as an allegedly rare and ‘kindly’ way to ease the suffering of the terminally ill has ballooned into a government program offering death as an escape from loneliness, depression, or even poverty and homelessness.

The prospect of the new year is always a mix of hope and caution; but as 2023 peers over the horizon, it throws dark and ever deepening shadows over the landscape of human rights in Canada. This coming March, Canada will expand its already shockingly broad MAiD, or Medical Assistance in Dying, law, to make death-on-demand available to Canadians—including so-called ‘mature minors’—suffering from mental illness.

The Canadian experiment with death-on-demand began in 2016. Rupa Subramanya, in a chilling post at Bari Weiss’ The Free Press, recounts how physicians warned from the beginning that the experiment was a reckless one. Dr. Ellen Warner, a professor at the University of Toronto’s medical school, objected to MAiD because “there was no way we would be able to avoid this slippery slope.”

New polling data suggests nearly two-thirds of Canadians are unaware of the federal government’s plan to extend medical assistance in dying to people suffering only from mental illness.

On Thursday, the government said it now plans to delay the start of the expanded criteria, previously scheduled to begin in March; the results of a Postmedia-Léger survey suggest that might be a worthwhile move.

In 1936, King George V lay on his deathbed. As his final hours drew near, the royal physician administered two injections of morphine and cocaine to hasten his passing, ensuring that his death would be announced in the morning papers, and not the ‘less appropriate evening journals’.

The King’s death was quick, painless, and utterly illegal; British law continues to view assisting suicide in almost any form as a criminal act. With the news this week that the House of Commons is launching an inquiry into assisted dying, this may soon change. For now, what was fit for the King remains, in the eye of the law, unfit for the common man. And thank God for that. Because before any change is made, lawmakers should seriously consider the catastrophe unfolding in Canada.

“Give me liberty or give me death!” So said American revolutionary Patrick Henry back in 1775. It was a poetic way of expressing his desire for American independence.

Patrick Henry wanted freedom so badly that he was willing to die for his cause. While our Canadian Confederation of 1867 was a quieter affair then the American Revolution, there is little doubt that our founding fathers also wanted Canada to be a free country.

Unfortunately, the legalization of MAID (medical aid in dying) has led to a much different rallying cry in modern-day Canada. Our new mantra appears to be “Give me medically assisted death when I become a burden on society!” Not only does it lack Patrick Henry’s poetic cadence, but it also conveys a very different message.

More people, per capita, are dying with medical assistance (MAID) in Quebec than anywhere else in the world, according to Quebec’s commission on end-of-life care.

Since the start of the pandemic, requests for the procedure have more than doubled — from 1,774 in 2019-2020 to 3,663 in 2021-22.

The increase means the percentage of people who chose MAID in Quebec is greater than in Belgium and the Netherlands, where it has been legal for decades. It has been legal in Quebec since 2015.