Recent Canadian Commentary

No more justifications that assisted suicide is about the “terminally ill for whom nothing can be done to alleviate suffering.” That patently isn’t true. Legislative proposals/laws that limit doctor-prescribed death to the terminally ill never have the “nothing can be done to alleviate suffering” part.  Thus, these restrictions are best seen for what they are–mere political expediencies deemed necessary by death ideologues to get the ball rolling. For that matter, so are requirements mandating that the patient actually take their own lives. Active euthanasia is the actual destination and always has been.  Here’s another example of the broad death license that the euthanasia/assisted suicide […]

It is possible that Quebec's euthanasia Bill 52 will not go to a vote before the Parti Québécois (PQ) government calls an election. If an election is called, Bill 52 will be dead. On Thursday, February 20, the Quebec National Assembly left for a break until March 11, without completing the debate or voting on euthanasia Bill 52. Currently, the PQ government has minority standing with 54 of 125 seats in the Quebec National Assembly. Recent polls indicate that the PQ government, under premier Pauline Marois, would do well if an election is called. Many reports indicate that Marois will call an […]