Conservatives Fight Back as Canada to Begin Euthanizing Mentally Ill Citizens
The Canadian government is expanding the nation’s liberal “assisted suicide” laws to begin euthanizing people for mental illness.
However, conservative politicians are pushing back by attempting to block the Canadian government’s expansion.
A new bill from the Conservative Party of Canada is aiming to slam the brakes on what critics are calling a dystopian descent into state-sponsored death for the mentally ill.
Conservative MP Tamara Jansen has introduced Bill C-218.
The Private Member’s Bill would ban the planned expansion of Canada’s euthanasia laws to those suffering solely from mental illness.
The bill, titled “An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying),” passed its first reading in the House of Commons on June 20, 2025.
Jansen delivered a powerful and chilling warning in Parliament on Friday, laying out the devastating implications of the government’s already-legislated expansion of euthanasia, or “medical assistance in dying” (MAiD).
MAiD will be updated to include those with mental illness, a change scheduled to come into effect in March 2027.
“Imagine your son or daughter battling depression for some time after losing a job, or maybe a broken relationship,” Jansen said.
“Imagine they feel the loss so deep that they’re convinced the world would be better off with them about them.
“Now, imagine this starting in March 2027, under Canadian law, they could walk into a doctor’s office and ask them to end their life.
“And under our law, the system could legally do just,” she added.
“That’s not a future scenario.