By Stephen Green
MAID now offers Canadian drug addicts an exciting and simple way to kick their addiction. The traditional way to enter recovery is through rehab and a 12-step program like Alcoholics (Or Narcotics) Anonymous. Those programs involve steps in which addicts must admit that they are powerless over their addiction, come to believe that only a higher power could restore them to sanity, and are “entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.”
It’s all so complicated and messy, especially Step 8, which requires making a list of everybody they’d harmed and becoming willing to make amends. Recovering addicts will also tell you that Step 4 — making a searching and fearless moral inventory — isn’t just difficult, it never ends.
But fear not because Canada has stripped all that down to one simple step that you’ll only ever have to use just one time: DIE, JUNKIE.
Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) is the catchy name for Canada’s ever-expanding government euthanasia program. When MAID was signed into law by Castro-wanna-be PM Justin Trudeau in 2016, proponents promised that government-assisted suicide would be only for people with “grievous and irremediable medical conditions.” But as I’ve reported for you over the last year, MAID has traveled down the slippery slope faster than a greased-up Jabba the Hutt on a hilltop Slip ‘n Slide.
Last November, I did a story on how Canada’s revised 2021 law had made MAID available to virtually anyone who wants it, including as a “cure” for poverty. I mentioned a Global News story that inflation was “driving a lot of Canadians with disabilities to consider ending their lives.” Seriously, there was an otherwise healthy 32-year-old woman “in the final stages of requesting a medically-assisted death after seven futile years of applying for affordable housing in Toronto.”