Send an urgent message to Canadian legislators urging them to stop expanding assisted suicide
(LifeSiteNews) — Canada currently has the fastest growing euthanasia regime worldwide while the wait time to receive basic medical care is up to 27 weeks.
According to an August report from Canadian think tank Cardus, the number of Canadians committing suicide through the “Medical Assistance in Dying” (MAiD) euthanasia program has skyrocketed thirteen-fold since it was legalized, making MAiD the fastest growing euthanasia program in the world.
“Health Canada has dramatically underestimated what a ‘steady state’ of MAiD deaths would look like and how quickly Canada would reach the 4 percent threshold of total deaths,” the report found.
“This threshold was reached in 2022, eleven years ahead of what Health Canada predicted only months earlier and double its prediction just four years earlier,” it continued.
First introduced in 2016, MAiD was initially only available to those who were terminally ill. However, in 2021, the Trudeau government expanded the deadly practice to be available to those who are not at risk of death but who suffer from chronic illness.
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While MAiD does not yet apply to the mentally ill, this is not due to a lack of trying on behalf of the Trudeau government, which decided to delay the expansion of euthanasia to those suffering solely from such illnesses until 2027 following backlash from Canadians and prominent doctors.
The most recent reports show that MAiD is the sixth highest cause of death in Canada. However, it was not listed as such in Statistics Canada’s top 10 leading causes of death from 2019 to 2022.
When asked why MAiD was left off the list, the agency said that it records the illnesses that led Canadians to choose to end their lives via euthanasia, not the actual cause of death, as the primary cause of death.
According to Health Canada, in 2022, 13,241 Canadians died by MAiD lethal injections. This accounts for 4.1 percent of all deaths in the country for that year, a 31.2 percent increase from 2021.
Canadians can be euthanized but can’t receive basic health care
Canadians may be surprised that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government would continue to push for MAiD expansion when many Canadians do not have access to health care.
However, the report seems to have confirmed what many Canadians have already realized when they have gone to a hospital to receive medical care: MAiD is prioritized above real health care.
Wait times to receive care in Canada have increased to an average of 27.7 weeks, leading some Canadians to despair and opt for euthanasia instead of waiting for assistance.
This was the case with 52-year-old Dan Quayle, a grandfather from British Columbia. On November 24, he chose to be killed via lethal injection after being unable to receive cancer treatment due to the increased wait times.
Similarly, in 2022, a Winnipeg woman wrote in her posthumously published obituary that she chose to die by assisted suicide after being refused the treatments she needed: “I could have had more time if I had more help.”
Indeed, the sick and elderly who refuse to end their lives with MAiD are often condemned as “selfish.”
As LifeSiteNews previously reported, in 2019, an Alberta nurse reportedly told Christian author Heather Hancock that she was “selfish” for not ending her life through MAiD.
In May, LifeSiteNews reported on a Canadian man who felt “completely traumatized” and violated that he was offered MAiD “multiple times” instead of getting the proper care he needed while in the hospital.
Send an urgent message to Canadian legislators urging them to stop expanding assisted suicide