Disabled in Canada? Doctors may pressure you to end your life
MAID in Canada
VA offers death instead of a wheelchair ramp
An agency meant to assist and protect Canadian veterans is instead offering MAID, medical assistance in dying, Hillary Johnstone of CBC News reported:
Christine Gauthier shocked Canadian parliamentarians when she told them that an employee of Veterans Affairs Canada offered her help with arranging a medically assisted death.
Gauthier, a retired corporal and paralympian, had been offered MAID instead of the wheelchair ramp for her residence which she had been fighting for, for the past five years.
Wiretap Media posted Johnstone's news report on X:
We're here to help you die
Since the Trudeau government legalized euthanasia in 2016, 65,000 Canadians, a startlingly huge number of people, have been legally killed through 2023, Anthony Murdoch, writing for LifeSite News, explained.
The number of Canadians killed by lethal injection since 2016 stands at close to 65,000, with an estimated 16,000 deaths in 2023 alone, and many fear that because the official statistics are manipulated the number may be even higher.
MAID is now the sixth leading cause of death in Canada but was intentionally omitted from Statistics Canada.
Not so sick? Doesn't matter
According to the government’s website, you don’t need to be on death’s door to qualify.
You do not need to have a fatal or terminal condition to be eligible for medical assistance in dying.
"A lot of pain and suffering" is a good enough reason to consider death.
If you're experiencing a lot of pain and suffering due to your medical situation, talk to your physician or nurse practitioner. You can discuss options related to your circumstances and your possible interest in medical assistance in dying.
Whether you want it or not
MAID has increasingly become the Canadian government/medical profession’s “go-to” for just about anyone considered a financial burden, according to Frank Bergman for Slay News.
Canada’s Liberal government is increasingly pushing to euthanize citizens who are considered a burden on the state’s taxpayer-funded healthcare system. . . .
Canada and other nations with liberal euthanasia laws are now killing physically healthy citizens, adults and children, for a range of minor and recoverable issues such as depression, hearing loss, and even poverty and homelessness. . . .
Concerns are now growing that vulnerable patients are being railroaded into the country’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program to cut costs and relieve the supposed burden. (Emphasis added.)
What if you want to live?
Enter the “Guardian Angels” - protecting patients from death
Canadians who are in a "hospital, hospice, long-term care, palliative care wards, or people with a chronic or terminal illness" can now have a "Guardian Angel" to make sure that they aren’t coerced into agreeing to MAID, Murdoch reported.
The Delta Hospice Society (DHS), one of Canada’s only fully pro-life hospices, is actively seeking patients in the healthcare system so that one of its “Guardian Angels” can be assigned to them to ensure they are not “pressured” into state-sponsored euthanasia.
Angelina Ireland, president of DHS, says that the organization is now ready to accept clients inside the healthcare system:
“Our launch of Guardian Angels is now at the point where we need clients,” DHS president Angelina Ireland told LifeSiteNews. “We are looking for patients inside the healthcare system who would like an Angel, those within hospital, hospice, long-term care, palliative care wards, or people with a chronic or terminal illness.”
Shades of Nazi Germany?
The image below is part of a slide show of Nazi propaganda included in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Holocaust encyclopedia website. This type of propaganda was used to to justify their eugenics program to the public.
Propaganda slide produced by the Reich Propaganda Office showing the opportunity cost of feeding a person with a hereditary disease. The illustration shows that an entire family of healthy Germans can live for one day on the same 5.50 Reichsmarks it costs to support one ill person for the same amount of time. Dated 1936.
Nazis defined individuals with mental, physical, or social disabilities as “hereditarily ill” and claimed such individuals placed both a genetic and financial burden upon society and the state. (Emphasis added.)
Offered death instead of assistance to live at home
Frank Foley, who has been disabled as a result of a childhood illness, had been receiving the medical care he needed to live at home, until MAID was enacted. Now Frank, who no longer receives the assistance he needs to be able to live at home, is forced to stay in the hospital and is constantly asked if he wouldn’t rather die, as Bergman reported in an earlier Slay News article. In the video below, he explains his plight:
We'll kill you to "make up" for your vaccine injury
Another person offered MAID is Ontario resident Kayla Pollock, a 37-year-old mother paralyzed from the neck down from a Moderna mRNA COVID booster. Although she says her life has become a “living hell,” as Frank Bregman reported for Slay News, she doesn’t want to die. However, she says, doctors have offered to “make up for it [her vaccine injury]” by offering to kill her through MAID.
The doctors suggested that Pollock should apply for Canada’s controversial Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program and said they would help her application get accepted.
The Canadian Independent shared her story on X, below:
Young Ontario woman’s life becomes a living hell after Moderna booster shot leaves her paralyzed. Doctors confirm vaccine connection and offer Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID).
Mentally ill deserve the opportunity to die, too
Like the Nazis who defined the mentally ill as a burden on the state, so too is Canada. Beginning in 2027, MAID will be offered to people considered mentally ill. The government had wanted to institute this already, but doctors were unwilling to kill otherwise healthy people, Murdoch reported.
In February, after pushback from pro-life, medical, and mental health groups as well as most of Canada’s provinces, the federal government delayed its planned expansion of MAiD to those suffering solely from mental illness to 2027.
In fact, since 2022 doctors have been encouraged to bring up legal killing even when patients do not, as seen in this National Post report tweeted by Alias:
Do Not Euthanize
DHS cannot run a hospice since they won't offer MAID, but the organization has other ways of supporting Canadian's right to live, Murdoch related: One of those ways is with a DNE, do not euthanize, registry.
The DHS also recently launched a Do Not Euthanize (DNE) National Registry that it says will help “defend” vulnerable citizens’ lives from “premature death by euthanasia.”
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“While we have been shut out of the medical system and not allowed to have a hospice facility [because they won't offer MAID], we have developed programs to help protect people from ‘MAID,’” thus giving them the best chance to access proper healthcare inside a predatory system, Ireland told LifeSiteNews.
“Our Do Not Euthanize Advance Directive has been highly successful, and we have given out upwards of over 8,000 DNEs across the country, with requests coming daily. Our new National Registry and customized DNE Wallet Cards are also extremely popular, and we are trying to keep up with demand.”
Easier to apply to die than to get appropriate housing
Some people find it harder to resist MAID when they feel they have no options left. That's what happened to Denise, a 31 year old Torontonian who was wheelchair bound from a spinal chord injury and had multiple chemical sensitivities. She could not find affordable housing that would not make her chronic illness worse, CTV reported in 2022.
One of her physicians, Dr. Riina Bray, medical director of the Environmental Health Clinic at Women's College Hospital in Toronto, has been looking for better housing saying Denise requires “immediate relocation for her safety.”
But Denise said she and supporters have called 10 different agencies in Toronto over the past six months to locate housing with reduced chemical and smoke exposure that she can afford on ODSP [disability income].
"None of them were able to do anything meaningful in terms of getting me relocated, getting the discretionary emergency, or temporary housing and emergency funds," said Denise.
It was easier for her to register to die.
Applying for medically assisted death has been surprisingly easier. Denise said she began working on applications for MAiD in the summer of 2021.
A psychiatrist, she said, first deemed her competent to make the decision. A second MAiD provider reviewed her medical history and signed the approval according to Denise. Another physician who offers medically assisted death has now asked her to finalize documents including a power of attorney and funeral arrangements along with a DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) order. She said she’s finishing up this documentation.
Denise has also asked doctors to waive the 90-day waiting period for people like her who are “Track Two” cases, meaning their natural death isn't imminent, hoping for an earlier death.
CTV reported on the lack of physician interest in helping her find housing instead of helping her die, as expressed by Dr. Bray.
Bray said none of the doctors contacted her to learn about the efforts to help Denise find housing first. This is despite research showing that people with multiple chemical sensitivities often improve in chemically cleaner environments.
Another woman, Sophia, was the world's first person with multiple chemical sensitivities (MCS) to be killed. She died in February 2022 and CTV covered her story, as well:
The woman’s assisted death followed her diagnosis with MCS, a chronic condition also referred to as an environmental illness or environmental allergies, say patient support groups and doctors familiar with her case.
“The government sees me as expendable trash, a complainer, useless and a pain in the a**," 'Sophia' said in a video filmed on Feb. 14, eight days before her death, and shared with CTV News by one of her friends.
Sophia searched for housing, begging officials for help for two years.
She died after a frantic effort by friends, supporters and even her doctors to get her safe and affordable housing in Toronto. She also left behind letters showing a desperate two-year search for help, in which she begs local, provincial and federal officials for assistance in finding a home away from the smoke and chemicals wafting through her apartment.
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“It’s not that she didn’t want to live,” Rohini Peris [President of the Environmental Health Association of Québec] said from her home in Saint Sauveur, Que. “She couldn’t live that way.”
Is DHS prepared for cases like these?
Will DHS be able to help others like Denise and Sophia so that they shouldn't believe they have no option other than agreeing to be euthanized?
> > What a horrific commentary on society this is.
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