Nothing in Canadian history has ever caused such international revulsion and disgust against us as has our euthanasia legislation. The law, euphemistically called Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), allows a physician to kill a patient by lethal injection or oral ingestion. The name of this euthanasia regime is a misnomer, since the lethal drug has nothing to do with medicine. It is not a cure, it does not heal, nor is it a treatment to alleviate pain. Its sole purpose is to kill. The MAiD regime that has evolved indicates beyond any doubt, that Canada is in a state of moral collapse. That collapse is due to two factors: leftist judges with a progressive death agenda, and spineless politicians who are only too happy to go along with this progressive culture of death.
The door to the MAiD regime was opened by the Supreme Court of Canada in a decision, Carter v. Regina, in February 2015 which removed a long-held legal protection of preventing anyone from killing another human being without consequences. In its deception, the Supreme Court casually dismissed concerns about loopholes in legislation that could lead to the abuse of vulnerable persons. The court stated that any abuse could be prevented by use of “properly designed and administered safeguards”. No legislation permitting euthanasia in any jurisdiction in the world has ever prevented shocking abuses but instead has led that jurisdiction down a slippery slope to calamity. The Canadian MAiD legislation was passed in June 2016. It stated that a life may be terminated if that individual was suffering unbearable mental or physical pain and that his/her death was reasonably foreseeable.
Fatal Loopholes in the MAiD Legislation
The MAiD legislation does not provide oversight (family members are not able to obtain the records of the deceased) and contains vague terminology such as the undefined term “unacceptable suffering”. The latter was to be determined by the patient. Most significantly, Canada’s MAiD regime is unique in the world in that it does not require health care providers to ensure there are no other options available for the patient prior to engaging MAiD. At present there are 12 other jurisdictions that permit euthanasia. However, Canada’s MAiD regime is the only one in the world where a patient may be approached by a physician who is caring for him/her, to consider undergoing MAiD.
Judicial and Political Corruption
The MAiD regime has been expanded by the deceit and manipulation of the Liberal government and corrupt judges. This began in May 2017 with the appointment to the Quebec Superior Court of Christine Baudouin, who had publicly stated that she supported euthanasia. Her father was an outspoken advocate of euthanasia and had published articles and books on the subject. In January 2019, this junior inexperienced judge, Baudouin, was selected to preside over a pivotal case on euthanasia, Truchon v. Canada (Attorney General). She was required to recuse herself from this case, due to her own publicly stated view in support of euthanasia and that of her activist father. However, she refused to do so, and improperly and unethically permitted into evidence her father’s written material in support of euthanasia. Not surprisingly, therefore, in September 2019, Judge Baudouin handed down a decision in which she removed the safeguards that restricted euthanasia only to those whose death was reasonably foreseeable, stating it was unconstitutional and discriminatory to limit euthanasia only to those who were terminally ill. This was a hugely damaging decision, fundamentally allowing euthanasia to be permitted for anyone who claimed they were experiencing unbearable suffering. No definition of what constituted “unbearable suffering” was provided so that the MAiD regime was open to anyone who claimed they were experiencing unbearable suffering. This could include anyone with diabetes, Alzheimer’s, schizophrenia, depression, a heart condition or even anorexia. In short, the MAiD regime was wide open and at the discretion of the patient.
The Liberal government should have appealed this outrageous, bigoted decision, but, instead, Trudeau lied to the public by claiming he was required by law to enact the decision of Judge Baudouin. However, Baudouin’s decision applied only to the province of Quebec and the federal government was not required to comply with a lower court decision of a single judge. The Minister of Justice at that time was David Lametti who was a former professor of law at McGill University. He knew absolutely that there was no requirement that the federal government needed to comply with Quebec’s lower court decision. However, both Trudeau and Lametti continued to lie to the public, and on this false basis in 2021 the MAiD legislation was updated and removed the restriction that MAiD was only available where death was reasonably foreseeable.
In addition to making this amendment, the legislation expanded MAiD to allow it for reasons solely of mental illness. This meant that euthanasia could be provided to individuals who were not capable of providing valid consent. This included those with mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, dementia (including Alzheimer’s), or deep depression. This provision to allow euthanasia for mental illness was a bridge too far. It created a backlash. The Canadian Psychiatric Association, for example, objected to it, as well as the general public, and surprisingly even some journalists in the legacy media. As a consequence of the backlash, the Liberal government delayed the provision to allow euthanasia solely for mental illness until March 17, 2027. This date hangs like a black cloud over the nation. The expanded 2021 amendment has led to euthanasia being performed on individuals based not on medical reasons, but for “social reasons” including disabilities, poverty or old age, allegedly causing “unbearable suffering”. Judge Baudouin was rewarded by the Liberal government for her decision on MAiD with an appointment by Trudeau to the Court of Appeal in Quebec in November 2020, just a little over a year after her decision. This swift appointment of a junior inexperienced judge to the Quebec Court of Appeal is unprecedented.
The Effect of MAiD
In November 2025, Health Canada issued its Sixth Annual Report on MAiD disclosing that 76,475 Canadians have now died by MAiD between 2016 and 2024. It disclosed that in 2024 alone, 16,499 MAiD deaths had occurred. This indicated that 5% of all deaths in Canada in 2024 were due to MAiD. The report only covers to the end of 2024. At the rate that MAiD has been applied in Canada, which is approximately 45 deaths per day, the number of deaths by MAiD on its 10th anniversary in June 2026 is expected to be 100,000 deaths. This number of deaths exceeds the combined total of deaths by euthanasia that have taken place in all other jurisdictions worldwide. Moreover, a 2024 report by the Ontario Chief Coroner’s MAiD Death Review Committee reported that a significant number of MAiD deaths in Ontario were performed without complying with the guidelines. No charges have been laid against the offending physicians.
Organ Donations from MAiD Victims
There is a further problem with the MAiD regime in that it has become closely linked with organ donation transplants. Even though the guidelines require that the team carrying out the MAiD procedure should be separated from the team receiving the organs for transfer into another person, there has nonetheless been a gradual increase in the number of organs received from individuals who have died from MAiD. Canada now leads all other jurisdictions in the world in the number of organs donated after euthanasia (ODE).
Organs taken from MAiD patients are considered to be valuable additional sources because donors are often younger and have fewer comorbidities than traditional donors. In 2024, 14% of MAiD deaths in Quebec provided organ donations, compared to 7% of MAiD deaths which provided organ donations in the rest of Canada. The high incidence of ODE in Canada, in which patients have provided their consent, can be attributed to health care workers who have no restrictions in encouraging the procedure, on the basis that the patient’s organs will be of benefit to society and therefore the death will be meaningful.
Further, it is troubling that MAiD physicians and some ethicists are currently pushing for the harvesting of organs prior to the patient’s death by MAiD. That is, the person will die because of the removal of the organs rather than from a lethal injection. By this process the organs will be fresher and in better condition for transplant. Ethicist Rob Sibbald, at the London Health Science Center in Ontario, stated that removing the organs before death (MAiD) rather than waiting until after the death, would be a much better solution.
How MAiD was Achieved
There is a depressing story behind how this grotesque MAiD regime came about. It involves two components working hand-in-glove to achieve, enact and sustain the death bureaucracy that is the MAiD regime. The two main cheerleaders are the Liberal government under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and the formidable lobby group Dying with Dignity (DWD).
Justin Trudeau’s Government
Justin Trudeau is Canada’s greatest misfortune, not only for the economic and social disasters he caused, but even more so because of the social calamity he pushed as evidenced by the MAiD legislation. Trudeau operated in a moral, ethical and intellectual vacuum. As Prime Minister, he did not comprehend right from wrong, nor did he have the capacity to understand the many implications of his policies, especially the enormity of the consequences of “normalizing” euthanasia. Moreover, he consistently exhibited a complete lack of internal guidelines or restraints and therefore, lacked an in-depth understanding (empathy) of what he was doing. Consequently, he endeavored to make MAiD as readily accessible as possible to the public with little or no limits.
Trudeau appears to have regarded MAiD as a benefit to society because not only did it save money by eliminating individuals who were a financial drain on the health care system, but it also spared caregivers from dealing with individuals who were a physical, emotional and financial burden. Simply put, Trudeau considered that individuals giving consent to their deaths was an advantage because it eliminated the need for healthcare, hospital beds, caregivers and an expensive social support system. Trudeau’s actions demonstrated that he considered people who did not contribute wholly to society as expendable.
MAiD Houses (Mad Houses)
In his determination for MAiD to be widely accepted, Trudeau used every opportunity available to encourage MAiD. Organizations promoting MAiD were granted charitable tax status by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA). This included providing charitable status to MAiD House (or Mad House, as it more appropriately should be called). Two such houses were established, one in Toronto in 2021 and one in Victoria in 2024. These houses provide “space” for individuals to be killed by the MAiD procedure, and provide on its premises, physicians and staff to implement this procedure. These facilities also arrange for the disposal of the bodies after death. MAiD Houses promote themselves as providing a compassionate community. They are funded by a number of small private foundations as well as private donors. These houses resemble the charnel houses established in England in the 19th century as a deposit and storage location for human bodies. The presence and operation of these “Mad” houses indicates a deep disrespect for the dignity of human life.
Canadian Association of MAiD Assessors and Providers (CAMAP)
Starting in 2016, a small group (six) of physicians in BC who had been actively lobbying for euthanasia, took advantage of the introduction of the MAiD regime to form a Not-For-Profit corporation called, “Canadian Association of MAiD Assessors and Providers” (CAMAP). It was granted charitable tax status in April of 2021. Between 2021 and 2024 CAMAP received $3,424,227 in federal funding. The stated purpose of CAMAP was to develop a standard curriculum for MAiD physicians to facilitate the procedure across Canada.
Despite the fact that regulation of health care practitioners is a provincial responsibility, determined by the provincial Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons, CAMAP, aided and abetted by the Liberal government, pushed a “national standard” to implementing MAiD. In 2020 CAMAP prepared a white paper on protocols or procedures for intravenous MAiD administration. As a white paper, it was not based on public hearings, but mostly on consultations with other physicians performing MAiD. It made recommendations on nothing more than the opinion of CAMAP and the paper’s six authors. In effect, with the assistance of Trudeau and his government, CAMAP, was used to expand access to MAiD and give MAiD an air of respectability. This small “right to die” advocacy group has come to play a major role in supporting the MAiD agenda.
Health Canada
Trudeau’s government gave Health Canada jurisdiction to expand access to MAiD in Canada. A section of this government department has been working diligently to do so. For example, Health Canada established a guideline in 2023 on MAiD, entitled, Model Practice Standard for Medical Assistance in Dying. This guideline mandates that doctors and nurses are required to advise a patient about the availability of MAiD. This must occur during the discussion of the patient’s medical care. A patient is more likely to take this death option, given that a “trusted” health professional has suggested it, even though there may be alternative treatments available. No other jurisdiction in the world which has legal euthanasia permits an attending physician or other health care official to suggest or recommend the death option.
Dying with Dignity (DWD)
This powerful lobby group was formed in 1982 and was granted charitable status in 2015. Charitable status was removed by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) because DWD failed to comply with the restrictions on political activity. However, under Justin Trudeau, in 2018 the charitable status was restored. DWD received a $7 million bequest under the will of the late Vancouver businessman, David Jackson. Notwithstanding this wealth, DWD received $430,306 between the years 2020-2024 from the Liberal government. Because of its wealth DWD became a formidable lobby group with enormous influence which gave it considerable advantage in public debate.
DWD and the Liberal government worked hand-in-glove to expand MAiD. According to information obtained under the Access to Information Act, DWD met many times (despite its charitable status) with cabinet ministers and highly placed bureaucrats assisting with drafting the MAiD legislation and for the expansion of MAiD. Further, the Board members of DWD were also members of the CAMAP organization which was involved in drafting procedures for the MAiD process. This was contemptuous of, and contrary to, the public interest because of the conflict of interest.
MAiD Based on False Information
It is extraordinary that MAiD’s whole premise as proposed by DWD and accepted by the Liberal government is completely false. DWD argued that MAiD provided a peaceful and serene death. It consistently presented, and continues to present, euthanasia as a compassionate and empathetic procedure providing a merciful and dignified way to end suffering. In effect, DWD’s argument in support of euthanasia, enthusiastically reflected in the legacy media, was reduced to the simplistic level of “Do you want your granny to suffer?” Unfortunately, the Canadian public, under the deluge of false information provided by DWD, have accepted this argument, and therefore, are treating MAiD as being reasonable and compassionate with the result that it is regarded by the Canadian public as a normal, reasonable way to end one’s life. This is evidenced by the enormous number of deaths that have occurred under MAiD in the past ten years.
The public does not realize, however, that there is no scientific data available on MAiD. In fact, there isn’t a single jurisdiction anywhere in the world that has analyzed euthanasia from the perspective of the drugs used and the process of death under MAiD, with the exception of the state of Oregon. That state introduced in 1998 a law allowing a licensed physician to write a prescription for a lethal dose of medication. In a 2023 report from Oregon Health Authority (Oregon Death with Dignity Act – 2023 Data Summary; March 20, 2024), the data indicates that 9-11% of the euthanasia patients experience complications including vomiting, aspiration, agitation and seizures. The report further stated that in some cases patients regained consciousness after ingestion of the lethal dose.
In no other area of medicine are drugs used that have not been extensively scrutinized. All that is known about deaths from MAiD is that anesthesia used in operations are injected in a heavy dose and that the patient either enters into a coma or is paralyzed so that there can be no observable indication during the procedure that the patient is suffering. Information, however, is available from the autopsies of 300 prisoners executed in the U.S. using the same or similar drugs as used in MAiD. It was observed that they died from having water in the lungs, that is, from drowning. Not an easy way to die. No autopsies have ever been done on any of the MAiD patients in Canada. The lack of reliable data should raise concerns about informed consent as patients are inevitably reassured that their deaths will be peaceful and without complications. There is no evidence to support this assumption.
Conclusion
Canadians have been lied to, manipulated and tricked into accepting the killing machine known as MAiD. This travesty can be attributed to a woke progressive judiciary, a morally compromised Parliament, and the fact that Canada’s Prime Minister, for a decade, was Justin Trudeau, an ill informed and naïve individual who should never have been allowed to become Prime Minister. Trudeau’s abject moral bankruptcy will have caused a projected 100,000 deaths by MAiD in this past decade. Trudeau’s successor, Mark Carney, fearing controversy and the loss of votes, has not shown any interest or inclination to put a halt to the growth of the MAiD regime. Consequently, the continuing bureaucratization of death and enlargement of the MAiD regime sets the stage for a state sponsored eugenics scheme that will be the envy of the Nazis’ Aktion T4 program.