Insiders Warn Canada’s ‘Assisted Suicide’ Is ‘No Longer Optional’
by Frank Bergman
Insiders of the Canadian government’s euthanasia regime are warning that the so-called “assisted suicide” program is “no longer optional” as vulnerable citizens increasingly become targets.
Two psychiatrists who helped implement Canada’s euthanasia program are warning that the system is no longer treating assisted dying as a last resort.
The insiders revealed that patients are being approved for death who should not qualify.
University of Toronto professors Madeline Li and Gary Rodin recently raised the alarm in The New York Times.
Li and Rodin were central to building Canada’s MAiD system from the ground up at the University Health Network (UHN) and were among the first clinicians in Canada to build and run a hospital-based MAID program.
However, they are now sounding the alarm over how the law is being expanded by the globalist government.
They describe a rapidly expanding system that gives vulnerable patients too little opportunity to reconsider an irreversible decision.
In many cases, people are being railroaded into euthanasia to avoid long-term care under the nation’s socialized healthcare system.
“Too many people are receiving the procedure without the opportunity for careful reflection about it with a health provider,” Li and Rodin wrote.
“In some cases, patients are being approved who should not be.”
Their warning comes from inside the system: both have assessed patients seeking Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD).
Insiders Warn System Has Become Too Permissive
Canada introduced MAiD in 2016 and subsequently expanded access beyond patients facing terminal illness.
Li and Rodin described a system whose broad interpretation of suffering has helped drive extraordinary growth.
“Today, Canada’s system is one of the most permissive in the world, allowing assisted dying for almost any form of subjectively intolerable suffering that has a medical basis, or even for medically unexplained physical symptoms,” Li and Rodin wrote.
“This latitude may contribute to Canada having the fastest growth rate of assisted dying in the world, increasing 16-fold in the eight years since legalisation.”