By Hilary White

OTTAWA, November 17, 2005 (LifeSitenews.com) - An Edmonton MP has said that the assisted suicide bill, C-407, is part of a concerted effort by activists to create public acceptance for euthanasia in Canada.
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  Peter Goldring, Member of Parliament for Edmonton East has identified the methods used to undermine what he calls “fundamental Canadian values” by stealth. He said that radical social activists push their ideas in public “through a piecemeal approach” without ever being “completely clear as to their final objectives.”
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“The process begins,” he said in a speech in the House of Commons, “with having ideas that most Canadians consider objectionable discussed as reasonable policies.”
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  He said that even though as a private members’ bill, C-407 is unlikely to pass, it has “opened the door to the further erosion of fundamental Canadian values and explicitly desires to make death preferable to life.”Â
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“How long will it be before the state begins making that decision on behalf of people suffering from long-term illness?” he said.
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  Goldring did not hesitate to draw a parallel between the attempts in Canada to create social acceptance of assisted suicide and the euthanasia programme of pre-war Nazi Germany in which criminals and the disabled were killed in a government funded programme of ‘racial hygiene’.
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  In pre-war Germany, he said, “liberal proponents of euthanasia wrote of the need to eradicate ‘life unworthy of life’ in the 1920s because money spent on ‘undesirables’ could be better spent on others.”
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  Calling assisted suicide a “sick euphemism” for murder, Goldring said that Canadians must be made aware of the dangers of the euthanasia movement and this bill. “It must be vociferously opposed in order to first, defeat it, and then, to ensure that the issue is not seriously raised again at the legislative level.”
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“If we allow one person to legally murder another, we are only steps away from allowing the state to murder the sick, the infirmed, the handicapped or perhaps the economically disadvantaged.”
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  Peter Goldring can be contacted in Ottawa at:
  House of Commons
  Ottawa ON K1A 0A6
  Ph. 613 992 3821
  Fax 613 992 6898
goldrp@parl.gc.ca