OTTAWA, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) — Conservative Member of Parliament Garnett Genuis has presented a petition from Canadians with disabilities warning against euthanasia expansion.
During a November 19 session in the House of Commons, Genuis delivered a petition to end Track 2 Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) request, which allow doctors to end the lives of those who are not terminally ill but have lost the will to live due to their having chronic health problems.
“The petitioners state that it is unacceptable for Canadians to choose medical assistance in dying due to a lack of available services or treatments,” Genuis told the House of Commons. “This is not a real choice. They point out that allowing MAiD for people with disabilities or chronic non-terminal illnesses devalues their lives. It sends the dangerous message that life with a disability is optional.”
People with Disabilities are Speaking Out On Euthanasia/MAiD
So-called “Track 2 MAiD” has transformed the experience of people with disabilities when accessing the healthcare system.
These petitioners want it reversed. pic.twitter.com/n3izpAQI2T
— Garnett Genuis (@GarnettGenuis) November 17, 2025
Genuis cited a recent article in Le Soleil which recounted the troubling case of a sick Canadian man who was essentially encouraged by a social worker to stop fighting and opt for death by lethal injection.
“That is not compassion. It is a betrayal of our duty to protect human dignity,” he declared.
The petition pointed out that “allowing medical assistance in dying for those with disabilities or chronic illness who are not dying devalues their lives, tacitly endorsing the notion that life with disability is optional, and by extension, dispensable.”
It also pointed out that making MAiD available to individuals with disabilities or chronic illnesses diminishes the motivation to develop better treatments and provide higher quality care for those living with such conditions.
In conclusion, the petition called on the Canadian government to “protect all Canadians whose natural death is not reasonably foreseeable by prohibiting medical assistance in dying for those whose prognosis for natural death is more than six months.”
A few days earlier, on November 17, Liberals responded to the petition by claiming that they have implemented “safeguards” to assess if someone is eligible to receive MAiD.
“These safeguards aim to address the risks associated with diverse sources of suffering and vulnerability, that could lead someone not close to death to seek MAiD,” Liberals wrote. “The safeguards examine whether their suffering results from factors other than the medical condition and whether there are ways of addressing their suffering other than through MAiD.”
However, this is not the first time that Canadians have petitioned to protect vulnerable Canadians from the ever-growing euthanasia regime.
As LifeSiteNews reported in October, Inclusion Canada CEO Krista Carr told Parliament that many disabled Canadians are being pressured to end their lives with euthanasia during routine medical appointments.
Similarly, internal documents from Ontario doctors in 2024 that revealed Canadians are choosing euthanasia because of poverty and loneliness, not as a result of an alleged terminal illness.
In one case, an Ontario doctor revealed that a middle-aged worker, whose ankle and back injuries had left him unable to work, felt that the government’s insufficient support was “leaving (him) with no choice but to pursue” euthanasia.
Other cases included an obese woman who described herself as a “useless body taking up space,” which one doctor argued met the requirements for assisted suicide because obesity is “a medical condition which is indeed grievous and irremediable.”
At the same time, the Liberal government has worked to expand euthanasia 13-fold since it was legalized, making it the fastest growing euthanasia program in the world.
Currently, wait times to receive actual health 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. At the same time, sick and elderly Canadians who have refused to end their lives have reported being called “selfish” by their providers.
The most recent reports show that euthanasia 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.
Asked why it 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, 13,241 Canadians died by euthanasia lethal injections in 2022, accounting for 4.1 percent of all deaths in the country that year, a 31.2 percent increase from 2021.