@the.free.press One out of every 20 deaths in Canada is now caused by the government’s assisted suicide program. What’s even more shocking is how fast the deaths are approved.
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March 7, 2026
"One out of every 20 deaths in Canada is now caused by the government’s assisted suicide program."
"What’s even more shocking is how fast the deaths are approved."
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They aren't even bothering with the Death Panels. Kill them all, let God sort it out.
I suppose if I lived in Canada, I’d probably commit suicide too. Especially after losing the Olympic hockey gold medal to Trump.
On the bright side, 95% of deaths are not caused by the Canadian government. Not too many countries can say that. CC, JSM
"..."What’s even more shocking is how fast the deaths are approved."..."
Easy when you know how. If they were smart, they'd be starting from the top down.
What's astonishing is not how easy it is, but how willing they are. Eager, even. And there have been several cases of patients changing their mind, and being overruled to death.
Meanwhile their leadership distracts with lurid myths about aboriginal children graves that don't exist, as if nonexistent, long-dead children are the current problem.
No wonder they want to keep the immigrant spigot open.
That video clip is very interesting. Note well the different opinions of the so-called experts and the expert shopping.
Maybe they could let their citizens keep 95% of their money, too. CC, JSM
The general cultural acceptance of abortion and green objectives makes assisted deaths entirely logical. Also consider the personal wealth gains (medical cost avoidance) that make it deaths easier to accept for those with little empathy.
Some ill elderly people don't want to suffer, but others don't want to be a burden. For the historical parallel see the brutal Japanese medieval winter survival film "The Ballad of Narayama" (1983). For a real-life parallels to dystopic science fiction, consider the economic savings of mandatory age-30 suicides in "Logan's Run" (1976).
The word "Caused" is seems slippery here. She may have a very valid point, but I'd want a fuller, less sensationalist analysis.
More canadians are murdered by their governments Healthcare system than are killed by guns in the us each year. Something like 18m canadians vs 16m Americans.
Canada's medical murder rate is 10-11 times us gun murder rate.
But at least it's free.
John Henry
Planned Personhood (PP)
Pretty sure that, faced with a terminal illness, I would at least go for palliative care rather than giving all my money to doctors for more pain and suffering and just a bit more time. I don’t even have any heirs, but the Harvard Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Club can make much better use of my money than some wanker doc. CC, JSM
All's fair in lust... life and abortion follows a liberal and progressive path.
Course right now I’m giving all my money (and lots of yours - thanks) to wanker lawyers. But other people can at least benefit from my precedent, either de jure or facto. CC, JSM
They need to get those numbers up to save their healthcare and old age pension systems!
The media and blue state govts will be pushing it here, soon enough.
I'd assume it's elderly sick option out of a series of bad days with no good days.
Same day service!
While wait times for ERs are often more than 12 hours, and appointments for things like MRIs take six months or more to obtain, there's one service that's same-day: MAiD.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2026/03/06/canadas-maid-program-is-a-scarily-efficient-death-machine-n2672409
Scott Adams was ready to commit assisted suicide months before he died. He’d ordered the chemicals and they’d been delivered to his house. (Apparently that’s the way it works in CA.) He changed his mind, obviously, and decided on every life preserving treatment that would grant him another day.
Quite a slippery slope between a personal choice and a mandated, cost-saving result. What do you suppose a bureaucrat would choose for you?
But! not to worry!
Over 95% of people offed through MAID are whitey whites
Nearly NO Indians (neither first nations OR Hindus)
Look what you have to agree to in Canada to get government efficiency, but hey, they deliver.
In favor -- assisted suicide emphasizes the individual and his dignity.
Against -- assisted suicide minimizes sick people’s vulnerability, dismisses coercive forces and relies on bureaucratic safeguards.
I think assisted suicide will be great for the sort of people who can only afford a house if they inherit it.
I have no problem with suicide at the painful end of life, but that's not what they are doing.
Fred said:
.. quite a slippery slope between a personal choice and a mandated, cost-saving result..
IF a person no longer pays income tax or social security..
WHY Should the government permit them to continue to exist?
You exist to SERVE the goverment.. it is your ONLY purpose.
Once you retire.. YOU Are REDUNDANT
A major result of Scott Adams leaving the scene is that Gutfeld sucks. No insights on current events any longer.
It's a tough year up here not only did we lose the Olympic gold medal game but most of the NHL teams are having a hard time as well. No wonder the death machines are working overtime.
I'm just glad that there's one part of the Canadian healthcare system is working promptly and effectively. See guys! you can do it if you try!
On a more serious note I should add that if you raise ethical objections to the MAiD program you are regarded as some sort of wingnut monster by the powers that be.
People for the Euthanasia of Throwaway Animals... Anthropoids (PETA)
In the last 2.5 years I have undergone two surgeries, one requiring 16 days in the hospital, the other just one night. In neither case was I billed a dime, due to Medicare and decent secondary insurance.
Would I have been granted these surgeries under Canada's system, where I'm surely taking more than I'm giving, at least in the healthcare arena?
I'll hang up and listen.
Just THINK
about the TONS of CO2 released Every Year by non tax paying old folks.
folk that contribute NOTHING to society..
folk that are taking up room!
THINK of the cost savings if we didn't have to pay
Social Security and Medicare for this REDUNDANT folk.
We could afford to complete the california high speed rail!
A fetus... feature of her Choice, Pro-Choice, maybe, baby.
Communism in action. Chinese communists smile.
Meanwhile … the Castro family should all be placed in suicide pods. They stole the wealth of their people.
There are downstream societal effects as well: When a nation enshrines in policy the idea that many of its citizens' lives are not worth living, it provides a moral justification for murder and all forms of abuse.
Nebraskan Ben Sasse is not moving to Canada. You can play a lot of basketball in the final minute.
Killing old people is cheaper and easier than taking care of them when they’re sick of injured. Those titanium knees are pricey! Then there’s the cost of the surgeons and nurses and physical therapists …. All those costs add up, don’t you know.
Medicare and Medicaid expansion under the Obamacares umbrella account for most of the 40 trillion dollar public debt and more in private debt forcing progressive prices and affordability. What is the threshold of viability? 6 weeks for a baby. Longer for a person? A geriatric?
And people say liberal governments can't cut spending. Ha! Just have to quickly transition that (almost) dead wood to plain old dead...
So 'Logan's Run' was a how-to manual for Canadians... after age 35... kaput!
Quite a slippery slope between a personal choice and a mandated, cost-saving result. What do you suppose a bureaucrat would choose for you?
It's inevitable that the choice will will taken out of the hands of the patient and will be made by "the process" and no one will have to feel responsible.
This is the kind thing of where AI will really come in handy.
So we cant execute killers because its so painful and hard but we can kill old people painlessly and efficiently. Okey - Dokey.
This is exactly the same as complaining that serial killers like killing.
"Those are rookie numbers!" - Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot
Medicare and Medicaid under the Obamacares umbrella is "=" but not equal to health care.
I heard of one guy being MAIDed because he was poor, and saw no end to his plight. I really don't want to believe that happened.
So, what happens to Canadian tax revenue when millions of young Canadians decide that life isn’t worth living since Canada sucks at hockey and the planet is burning up because of CAGW?
Hey boomer, this one’s for you.
Gotta pump those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers in this racket…
Getting old isn't for sissies
When that airhead Sarah Palin predicted that ObamaCare would lead to rationing and what she coined "death panels" who would decide who gets life-saving care and who doesn't, she was mocked by the left and its media ampllifiers. It was even PolitiFact's "lie of the year." What a buffoon she was.
Most are people who would soon be dead anyway and MAiD is, as intended, sparing them a few months of misery.
But there is a definite mission creep, where the standards are continually being lowered such that some people aren't even sick (fear of homelessness has been an approved reason) while others don't actually want to die, but their families want to be rid of them (a phenomenon called "caregiver burnout").
Eva Marie said...
Hey boomer, this one’s for you.
@Eva Marie, this Boomer doesn’t think that’s funny.
"Dave Begley said...
Nebraskan Ben Sasse is not moving to Canada. You can play a lot of basketball in the final minute."
Is he hanging around in hopes to see Trump impeached? Fuck Ben Sasse
tim maguire said
"... while others don't actually want to die, but their families want to be rid of them (a phenomenon called "caregiver burnout")."
And it is not just the burden of caregiving, it can also be a financial calculation. Mom is down to her last $100,000, and at this rate, between her medical and "A Place for Mom" costs, she'll be out of money in 3-5 years. 3-5 lonely, painful years. And boy, I could sure use $100,000 right about now.
Hmmmmm, maybe this is what happened to the Canadian commenter here who lived with his mom and called everyone Covidiots. Haven't heard from him.
"baghdadbob said...
tim maguire said
"... while others don't actually want to die, but their families want to be rid of them (a phenomenon called "caregiver burnout")."
And it is not just the burden of caregiving, it can also be a financial calculation. Mom is down to her last $100,000, and at this rate, between her medical and "A Place for Mom" costs, she'll be out of money in 3-5 years. 3-5 lonely, painful years. And boy, I could sure use $100,000 right about now."
Medical if free in Canada, not sure about "A place for mom" but at least here in the states plenty of ways around both.
Curious George, one way or another, Mom is burning through our inheritance. The negative cash flow causes are less relevant. Now if you can only secure Power of Attorney to "help" her navigate the increasingly confusing details of life, then we can "help" her make good life, or end-of-life, decisions. And that $100,000 can be used for more productive purposes.
Now add all the premature deaths caused by the health care rationing and delays which are baked into Canada’s “healthcare” system. Canadians must be so proud.
What is insidious, is that the Canadian health care system that provides and regulates MaiD, benefits financially from its use.
tim maguire said...
Most are people who would soon be dead anyway and MAiD is, as intended, sparing them a few months of misery.
I think that's an assertion without evidence. At the very least is confuses palliative care that lets nature takes its course with no treatment and actual killing that is reflected in MAID and similar euthanasia programs.
"baghdadbob said...
Curious George, one way or another, Mom is burning through our inheritance. The negative cash flow causes are less relevant. Now if you can only secure Power of Attorney to "help" her navigate the increasingly confusing details of life, then we can "help" her make good life, or end-of-life, decisions. And that $100,000 can be used for more productive purposes."
There are government funded assisted care and nursing homes that can be covered by SS. When my dad died we got his home (lake home) and all other assets including bank accounts. He was rich but it was well over a $300k.
Christopher B said...I think that's an assertion without evidence.
Are you joking? Of course there’s evidence.
The government runs free care facilities, but most of them are the horror show you’d expect. The good ones have years-long waiting lists. We paid about 15 G a month (Canadian—so about $1.35 US) to care for my MIL in a private facility. Despite “free health care,” plenty of Canadians blow through their savings for elder care just like Americans.
Any chance we could get the Canadians to administer capital punishment here? Apparently they can put 76,000 people to sleep there without a hitch, but, in this country, it's very rare for a prisoner to die without undergoing the throes of the damned.
I'm sufficiently old, and I guess something dire will be coming my way before long. Some deaths are worse than others, and I would like the option to opt out. But it's definitely a slippery slope. I've got arthritis. My relatives all tell me that it's a progressive disease and maybe it would be best to take my leave now before the condition worsens and I undergo needless pain.
Tim Maguire:
There’s a smart and legal way for Americans to save their money from the nursing home.
If he was born in Canada a few decades later Jack Kevorkian could have made a killing.
I think this occurs informally with Hospice in the US. Both my father and stepfather were terminal ill, suffering and a decision was made to stop giving them nourishment. One decision by my stepfather, who had stage four lung and brain cancer and was willing to go to Amsterdam to end his life with assisted suicide.
My father had a bad stroke and was relatively OK for about one year and then faded and was no longer there, just a shell getting nourishment in a feeding tube. After some time, my family decided that it was best to stop nourishment.
My guess is that this happens quite often with patients in hospice, though I'm not sure if it qualifies as assisted suicide.
Curious George:
That wasn’t nice.
RCOCEAN: “So we cant execute killers because its so painful and hard but we can kill old people painlessly and efficiently. Okey - Dokey.” Exactly! It’s good to know that sometimes Ocean gets it right.
"William said...
I'm sufficiently old, and I guess something dire will be coming my way before long. Some deaths are worse than others, and I would like the option to opt out."
You do. A car, some duct tape, and a garden hose. Be a Renaissance man.
Christians(practicing not CINO) rely on JOB 14:5 and PSALM 31:15 (and others)tells us a persons days are determined by God 'My times are in your hands" Faith will be the determining factor in each individuals decisions.
Curious George said...
"A car, some duct tape, and a garden hose. Be a Renaissance man."
Pro Tip: don't use a Tesla.
The right to choose one's own death is a complex moral question. Given the risks of criminal prosecution, it was inevitable that the government would have to be involved. This isn't going away.
For readers of novels, try Should We Stay or Should We Go by Lionel Shriver.
Fauci enveous
Running car, closed garage and zero need for government.
"Hitler's Euthanasia program (Aktion T4 and related) killed around 173,000–200,000+ Germans with disabilities (mental, physical, etc.) killed as "life unworthy of life."
Canada says: "Hitler, hold my beer."
Planned Patienthood (PP)... umbrella corporation? Wicked.
Maybe, baby.
Canada says: "Hitler, hold my beer."
Yes, but we have Cecile the Cannibal, Dr. Gosnell, and, of course, Dreams of Herr Mengele... uh, Levine. And, of course, Capitol punishment. Diversity (i.e. class-disordered ideologies), too. A liberal license to progress.
Selfie-abortion is a Choice. State-assisted affirmative action to entertain abortive ideation is a progressive path and grade that we should not indulge, let alone advocate.
Plsnned Perphood can be executed at Planned Parenthood followimg an ethical and inclusive regime. Why should murderers expect anything less?
Talk about replacement programs. Import the new, kill the old. What will ‘progressives’ think of next?
..Now if you can only secure Power of Attorney to "help" her navigate the increasingly confusing details of life, then we can "help" her make good life, or end-of-life, decisions..
i think we ALL know, the Number One Sign, of an elderly person being too confused and their heirs needing Power of Attorney.
that Number One Sign, is thinking they DON'T want or need MAID.
IF you Want MAID, you are mentally competent to receive it.
IF you DON'T want MAID, that is PROOF that you Aren't competent
'That's some catch, that catch-22,' he observed.
'It's the best there is,' Doc Daneeka agreed."
1/20 isn’t a high number. It’s mostly old people not wanting to suffer.
"baghdadbob said...
Curious George said...
"A car, some duct tape, and a garden hose. Be a Renaissance man."
Pro Tip: don't use a Tesla."
There's always click bang thump for the greens.
Maybe the dudes on Death Row for 10, 20, 30 years can exhibit profound depression and request MAID?
And hey, if fear of homelessness is good enough for MAID, actual homelessness and all the ills therefrom should way surpass the standard. We could clean up the Bidenvilles with gentle, caring medical care.
Or "je suis migrant nondocumente'. C'est une condition tres depressante. Je voudrais MAID, s'il vous plait." No more divisive ICE street ops! CC, JSM
The word caused is doing a lot of work here. It might be more accurate to say that in 5% of deaths, the precise timing is determined by the assisted suicide law--some deaths would happen anyway quite soon, whether through the painful progress of disease, or non assisted suicide. In other cases, such as progressive dementia, the person could survive for years, but with what quality of life? The fact that these deaths are allowed to happen early doesn't seem very problematic, does it? So how many deaths happen under this law in cases where the person is actually cutting off good years that they would have lived under the alternative regime, without a good reason to do so? That's the number we want to know, and the article does not provide it.
I've had two close relatives, both extremely competent people, both in their early 70s, choose assisted suicide in the past three years. One lived in New York, the other in CA. The one in NY had a central nervous system disease that was destroying her ability to read, think and communicate, but she was on track to live for years. No assisted suicide for her in the US, because her condition was not going to result in death within six months. She went to Switzerland. The other also faced years of dementia, but she also had cancer and her cancer doc finally agreed she had less than six months to live. In the end, she did not use the medicine till her final days, when there was nothing left but suffering. I would think members of this group who are libertarians would favor a broad right to assisted suicide in these types of situations. How many of you think that a lot of people are committing assisted suicide in Canada outside of these types of cases?
Use a Tesla, and reap the benefits of lithium ion with a sustainable immolation and liberal toxicity. The probability of remaining viable are even less than at Planned Parenthood umbrella corporations.
I won the gold medal in a pickleball tournament last weekend. I was the oldest in the tournament. It helped to have two titanium alloy knees. I’ll be 75 on Tuesday. When should I check out?
’I’m earning over $220/hour working remotely…’
Could you do $225/hour? That’s really my baseline…
It was just a couple of hockey losses at the Olympics guys, don't take it so hard.
’Pro Tip: don't use a Tesla.’
Hahahahaha
The entire discussion specifically excludes people of sound mind that are facing debilitating pain and suffering and want to end it. There is a plethora of stories that highlight the misuse of the program to drive people to choose euthanasia. We all have read stories about people that are drawn to the medical industry for pathological reasons. This is a specific niche for the highest gratification for such people. There have been many that have cautioned that establishing the wrong incentives will lead to administrators taking the 'bottom line' approach to cost-effectiveness, instead of the Hippocratic one.
If ever there was an area of medicine that demanded the highest, most rigorous standards of oversight, this is it. The Canadians have not only failed, it appears in some cases they have failed, with intent. They are actively encouraging people to take MAID as a viable alternative to life-saving treatment. It is beyond disgraceful, it's evil.
Aggie: Government oversight is the problem, not the solution.
I said 'oversight', not 'Government oversight'.
"Aggie said...
I said 'oversight', not 'Government oversight'."
Who do you think that is?
In the US we have hospice care. Both my parents died while in hospice. IMHO, hospice is sort of like "assisted suicide lite/slow-mo". It's an acknowledgement that no more "healing" actions will be taken, and letting nature take it's course.
@Curious George, well take for example the world of air travel. Why do you think it's so safe? It's not because of government oversight - it's because the air industry took a systems approach and made it that way, starting with each and every part that is sourced to be put into an aircraft. Another example ironically enough, is the medical industry, where people are routinely operated on, usually with a high degree of successful outcomes. The people that know the work are the ones who select their leaders and entrust them with constructing a system of oversight. I don't claim to be an expert, but I've contracted aircraft and hired safety people to make sure we are moving people safely, so I have seen how this is managed. Same for the doctors we put on remote drilling operations.
It would seem that what Canada's health system has done, is empowered the wrong kinds of people to be the interface with the patients. I cannot imagine putting this kind of face on the MAID program, one where disabled people in real need of help are instead offered death, where death is presented as the only ready relief - when proven treatments are widely available, but are scarce because the government's own programs are limiting availability. How a government could not immediately slam the brakes on the entire program until they figure out how to administer it in a morally sound way - that says a lot about the government.
Forty-five hundred suicides plus an equal number of euthanasias raises voluntary deaths to 20%, year in and year out in Canada.
Aggie said...
"..I cannot imagine putting this kind of face on the MAID program, one where disabled people in real need of help are instead offered death, where death is presented as the only ready relief.."
https://indepnews.org/en/veteran-offered-suicide-instead-of-stair-lift/
"..Christine Gauthier, a physically impaired army veteran and former Paralympic athlete, testified before the Canadian Parliament in late November 2024. The paraplegic woman had applied for funding to install a stair lift. Instead, she received a proposal for “assisted suicide” from the Department of Veterans Affairs under Justin Trudeau’s left-wing government.."
After ALL, chair lifts are Expensive,
this woman was no longer paying taxes and was REDUNDANT
rhhardin said...
I'd assume it's elderly sick option out of a series of bad days with no good days.
You'd be wrong. Often it's "young and 'depressed'"
When that airhead Sarah Palin predicted that ObamaCare would lead to rationing and what she coined "death panels" who would decide who gets life-saving care and who doesn't, she was mocked by the left and its media ampllifiers. It was even PolitiFact's "lie of the year." What a buffoon she was.
Yeah. Now, where does she go to get her apology?
Saving money the Canadian way.
I look at the whole assisted suicide fiasco as a failure to implement a rational comprehensive abortion program.
@Aggie
The answer isn't oversight, it's making it illegal. Whether in Canada, or here in the US, as long as it's legal, under certain circumstances, there will be creep (like in Canada) or abuse.
Look at gender affirming care including surgery here in the US.
Stephen,
So, why didn't you help your close relatives commit suicide? It isn't a hard thing to do to acquire the means for them to die painlessly. Why did you force one of them to travel overseas?
Yancey Ward, I did not make those decisions. My cousins did, with the help of their immediate families, who in both cases included physicians. In the case of the cousin who went overseas, no one had any appetite for breaking the law or asking others to do so. Fortunately, they had the money to go to Europe. It's not cheap..
Assisted suicide does happen in all states of the US. And has forever. Physician talks to family and then blips the morphine.
@Curious George, shouldn't that be included in the 'ought to be illegal' part, too?
Death panels ahe said
Stephen said...
I would think members of this group who are libertarians would favor a broad right to assisted suicide in these types of situations.
You think libertarians would want government controlled health care to provide government assisted suicide.
I think I figured out why you are dumb enough to want the government to kill people.
"Aggie said...
@Curious George, shouldn't that be included in the 'ought to be illegal' part, too?"
Of course, and it is. And it still happens. But it does by nature reduce it.
I sort of prefer the situation where hospice care shows you the morphine bottle with STRICT (wink wink) admonitions that administering too much can be fatal. This business of Doctors administering death cocktails feels dystopian
@Lawcruiter I'm with you and think that's maybe more common.
The owner of the body concerned has the rights, the pups who want access to the Fidelity Account have nothing. I probably need to have the donation of all my accounts to a certain university as the default and give to relatives only at the last minute under password control. You can’t trust anyone.
"no one had any appetite for breaking the law or asking others to do so"
Or, more accurately, none of them had any appetite for helping in the killing of their relative, right?
OTOH, my brother was chronically ill from infancy but had a powerful will to live. He kept working through a decade-plus of dialysis the first time, and when blindness cut off driving, he sold architectural and coffee table books on the internet. He endured decades of loneliness and physical agony, and my other brother paid his bills. He even (stupidly) refused automatic disability for the first long round of dialysis. His last boss kindly set up a cot in a back room so he could take naps while working. When bone cancer ripped through him, likely from decades of immunossuppressants, he fought like hell to endure it. The organs were gone, and he was suffering, but his mind was still there. Every day, these ghouls would take me into the hallway and try to convince me to stop the dialysis. They wanted the room. He and my family paid more than their share their whole lives, and he had made his desires extremely clear. His last words to me were: "don't stop the dialysis." It stopped working on its own a week later -- his heart was barely pumping, and that was true -- but he fought like hell to be transported to hospice. He just wanted another week to listen to Life of Brian, Holy Grail, and Silly Walks. When hot priest glossy-hair paused hitting up hospice staff to come in to give him last rites, I was playing "Every Sperm is Sacred." The priest was shocked, also by not getting tipped. I made him wait until the song was over, did the ritual, and I scared him away. I hope he learned something about his faith. Ironically, how better to learn it but from that song? My brother earned that death, harder than virtually any of us could but on his own terms. That is freedom too. And choice.
Now what would have happened to us in Canada?
I asked grok In Canada what percent of maid patients killed by the government have fatal diseases and are expected to die within six months?
In Canada, Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) does not require a specific prognosis of six months or less to live, unlike some U.S. state laws for assisted dying. Instead, most cases (around 96%) fall under “Track 1,” where the person’s natural death is deemed reasonably foreseeable based on their medical circumstances—typically meaning they have a terminal or advanced-stage condition with an expected decline leading to death in the not-too-distant future, though without a fixed timeframe like six months. 8 This category primarily includes those with fatal diseases like cancer (the leading underlying condition in 64% of all MAID cases). 5 The remaining ~4% are “Track 2” cases, where death is not reasonably foreseeable (e.g., chronic but non-terminal conditions). 0
No official data breaks down MAID recipients explicitly by a six-month prognosis, as that’s not part of Canada’s eligibility criteria or reporting.
So may not be any data. We do read a LOT of stories about people with untreated depression or people struggling to pay rent being killed through maid.
Fantastic post by powerline.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/03/canadas-government-sponsored-death-program.php
serious Question
in Canada, are people with gender dysphoria offered MAiD?
if Not.. WHY NOT?
wouldn't this be Both cost effective, and Kind?
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