The Patriot Post® · Canada's Psychiatric Death Panels on Pause

Canada has an assisted suicide program called Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID). When the ban against assisted suicide was initially lifted in 2015, this program was for the terminally ill or elderly who wanted to bypass the potential suffering of the end stages of something like terminal cancer.

This is despicable in and of itself. It gets darker, however. MAID opened up its criteria for eligible applicants to the poor. The government was, in essence, convincing its people that they were a burden on society simply because they could not afford to live in Canada, which has as much to do with poor governance as it does with life circumstances that put people in cycles of poverty.

Canada was already killing its sick and its poor — but then took it a step further. The government subsequently decided it was also going to kill the mentally ill, and children as young as 12 qualify. Officials justify this by saying the sufferer’s mental illness must be irreversible.

So it is with a sigh of some relief that Canada has announced a pause on the MAID program for the mentally ill. What exactly was the reason? Had government death panelists come to realize just how evil this program was not only as a concept but also for their sickening society?

No.

They simply don’t have enough doctors to meet demand.

Apparently, the demand for MAID’s “services” jumped by 30% between 2021 and 2022. Last year, more than 4% of Canada’s deaths occurred through this barbaric practice. The mental illness demand for suicide is so high that provinces were given more time to organize and hire doctors, specifically psychiatrists, to handle the workload.

Not the Bee points out this bitter irony: “But there’s something funny about the Canadian socialized healthcare system being at such a gross level of incompetence that they can’t effectively execute their death panel program.”

Sadly, this is only a temporary pause.

Conservative Party MP Ed Fast asked: “Have we gone too far and too fast with Canada’s assisted suicide program? Will we evolve into a culture of death as the preferred option for those who suffer from mental illness or will we choose life?”

Canada is already in the throes of that culture of death. The mentally ill are merely the next vulnerable party the government wishes to exploit.

Life is a gift. We do not choose to be born, but we do get to choose how we use the gift of life. Squandering what time you have left by wallowing in the victimhood of poor health or poverty is believing the lie that circumstances determine your life’s value.