MAiD
Official data shows euthanasia deaths in Canada rose significantly in 2023
From LifeSiteNews
Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) increased 42% in 2023 in Quebec alone.
Deaths of Canadians by state-approved euthanasia have risen sharply in most provinces according to recent data, with approximately 16,000 people dying in 2023 alone, a significant increase from 2022 and an “out of control” rate, the nation’s leading anti-euthanasia advocacy group warned.
Official MAiD data from Ontario, Quebec, and Alberta shows the shocking level of deaths. In 2022, there were 13,241 Canadians who died by MAiD.
According to data from the Quebec Commission on End-of-Life Care’s eighth annual report, 5,211 people died by MAiD from April 1, 2022, to March 31, 2023, which is a large increase from 3,663 in the previous reporting period.
Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition (EPC), wrote in a recent blog that he predicts that 60,000 Canadians have died by MAiD since the deadly practice was legalized in 2016, with the rate increasing every year.
“Euthanasia is out of control in Canada,” Schadenberg said.
The EPC noted that deaths in Quebec from MAiD increased 42% in 2023, accounting for 6.8% of all deaths in the province. The report also shows that from April 1 to June 30, 2023, the number of MAiD deaths in the province went up 24%, which the EPC noted is “a slower pace of growth, but substantial considering the massive number of euthanasia deaths.”
The EPC also reflected that “Shockingly, 15% of those who died by euthanasia in Quebec were not terminally ill.”
MAiD data from Ontario released late last year shows there were 4,641 deaths in 2023, an 18% increase from 3,924 in 2022.
Data from Alberta shows that since June 2016 there have been 3,914 reported deaths by MAiD. However, 977 were in 2023, which is an 18% increase from 836 in 2022, or 594 in 2021.
Most MAiD deaths in Canada are done by a “doctor or nurse injecting a person, usually upon request, with a lethal poison cocktail,” the EPC noted.
Assisted suicide, the EPC says, is much less common and “is done by a doctor or nurse prescribing a person, usually upon request, a lethal poison cocktail that the person would take themselves.”
Last week, notably after pushback from pro-life, medical, and mental health groups as well as most of Canada’s provinces, the federal government under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delayed its planned expansion of euthanasia to those suffering solely from mental illness to 2027.
Canadian Health Minister Mark Holland and Justice Minister Arif Virani announced the delay but said the government is still fully committed to expanding MAiD.
The delay was welcomed by the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, but Schadenberg told LifeSiteNews that euthanasia “should be scrapped altogether.”
“We will be active in the next election reminding voters of the Members of Parliament who voted against Bill C-314 last fall, a bill that would have scrapped euthanasia for mental illness,” Schadenberg said.
Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) said that Canadians need “compassionate care, not killing,” and has urged Trudeau’s federal government to permanently scrap, not just delay, its planned expansion of euthanasia to those suffering from mental illness.
The Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) under leader Pierre Poilievre is supportive of the pause but wants the expansion of MAiD to be dropped altogether.
The CPC has opposed the expansion of MAiD, but recent attempts to stop the grim procedure, such as through Bill C-314, have failed.
The current delay is the second time the expansion has been put on hold.
Originally set to go into effect in March 2023, pressure from the same groups led the Liberals under Trudeau to delay Bill C-39.
The original delay in expanding MAiD until 2024 also came after numerous public scandals, including the surfacing of reports that Canadian veterans were being offered the fatal procedure by workers at Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC).
It’s More Horrifying Than Anyone Will Admit
There is no dignity in a society that sees the suffering and chooses to eliminate the sufferer instead of the suffering.
Canada finally released its 2024 MAiD (state sanctioned murder) report, shockingly quiet so people wouldn’t see it. Right after the budget, and right before Christmas. A late-November drop, as if 16,499 state-sanctioned murders were an administrative side note instead of a national alarm bell, one that should be absolutely terrifying Canadians. That number is a almost a 7% increase!!! from the year prior. Euthanasia now accounts for 5.1% of all deaths in the country. Let that sit for a minute. More than one out of every twenty deaths in Canada is no longer natural, accidental, or medical it’s chosen, coerced, approved, and facilitated by the state.
Now the most disturbing trend isn’t the overall rise. It’s the massive increase in Track 2 deaths, these are people who were NOT AT ALL terminally ill. Those deaths rose by 17%.
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17%!
Track 2 is MAiD’s (state sanctioned murder) quiet backdoor, one that almost anyone can access. People who aren’t dying, but are suffering, disabled, lonely, financially struggling, or simply worn down by a system that failed to care for them. The government likes to use sterile language “grievous and irremediable condition” but it refuses to define it. That ambiguity isn’t an accident. It’s policy. It’s how they kill people without justification.
The numbers don’t lie, even when the government tries to hide them. Since legalization, Canada has recorded 76,475 deaths by MAiD up to the end of 2024. Realistically, by today we’re closing in on 92,000.
That’s the population of a mid-sized city. Gone.
92,000 human beings. Gone, before their time all because CAMAP (Canadian Association of MAiD Assessors and Providers) convinced people who were suffering they were too damn weak to try.
Quebec leads the country with 5,998 deaths in 2024. Ontario follows with 4,944, then British Columbia at 2,997. Even these numbers don’t match what provincial reports say. Quebec claims 6,058. BC says 3,000. Why the discrepancy? No one seems eager to answer.
When the data moves faster than the government’s honesty, you know something’s off and something been off for a minute now.
Track 2 deaths have always been the canary in the coal mine, yet no ones seems to care unless it’s one of their family members. Those not tied to terminal illness hit 732 cases in 2024. In 2021 there were 224. The curve isn’t just rising; it’s accelerating at a pace that will destroy a country.
And who are these people?
They’re younger. They’re more often women. They’re overwhelmingly people living with disabilities. They are Canadians who needed support and instead got a syringe. More than 61% of Track 2 deaths were people living with disabilities. Yet many disabled Canadians don’t even identify as disabled on paper. So the real number? Higher. Much higher.
Every major reason listed for choosing MAiD (state sanctioned murder) loss of independence, loss of mobility, inability to participate in meaningful activities is directly tied to disability or chronic health issues. When your supports are stripped, “choice” becomes a fiction.
The “other” category, is where any sort of accountability goes to die in this country along with our souls. The most suspicious data point continues to grow unnoticed. The “other” category is over 46% of disabled Track 1 deaths and 56% of disabled Track 2 deaths are filed under “other.”
What’s in “other”?
Organ failure. Autoimmune disease. Frailty. Chronic pain. Diabetes. Mental disorders.
In any honest system, these would not be “miscellaneous.” In Canada’s system, they are conveniently undefined so nothing can be challenged.
People choosing Track 2 death are more likely to be poor, living in struggling neighbourhoods, in institutions and on disability. This isn’t compassion. It’s triage disguised as mercy. When life becomes unaffordable, MAiD (state sanctioned murder) becomes the “cheap solution.”
One of the leading causes of this choice to die is loneliness….this part should haunt every Canadian with a conscience. The report tries to downplay loneliness as a factor, but the numbers betray reality:
21.9% of Track 1 deaths
44.7% of Track 2 deaths
…were tied single handedly to loneliness and isolation.
That’s at least 3,800 people in 2024 who died because they were alone.
But anyone who’s worked with veterans, trauma survivors, or the disabled knows the truth loneliness is wildly underreported. People list their medical condition to qualify. But loneliness and despair? That’s the gasoline soaking everything underneath.
Track 2 recipients were three times more likely to be receiving mental health or social service support compared to Track 1. The mental illness “safeguards”? They’re paper-thin.
The government wants us to believe MAiD (state sanctioned murder) is about dignity. But dignity is a human experience, not a checkbox. Dignity requires connection, support, purpose, safety. None of those can be injected into a vein.
MAiD (state sanctioned murder) was sold as a last resort for the dying. It is now an early exit for the neglected. There is no integrity in a system where people choose death because life became bureaucratically inconvenient. There is no compassion in telling a disabled person the waitlist for care is years but death is available next Tuesday. There is no dignity in a society that sees the suffering and chooses to eliminate the sufferer instead of the suffering.
Parliament is currently debating Bill C-218, which would stop the expansion of MAiD for mental illness. Given what the data shows, mental illness is already driving many Track 2 deaths, even though it isn’t technically allowed on its own.
Canada is no longer drifting, its fully submerged in the dark and this is something that can’t be undone once normalized. MAiD (state sanctioned murder) is no longer a rare compassionate exception. It is becoming a cultural default for people society doesn’t know how to support.
If we don’t reverse this slide now, we’ll look back and wonder how we ever confused convenience with compassion. This system isn’t mercy. It’s abandonment dressed up as policy.
The conversation needs to get louder, not gentler and I plan to make it so loud the pro death cult’s ears bleed.
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From LifeSiteNews
Internal documents from Ontario doctors in 2024 that revealed Canadians are choosing euthanasia because of poverty and loneliness, not as a result of an alleged terminal illness.
Death by doctor-assisted lethal injection, under the title Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), now accounts for over 5 percent of all deaths in Canada.
In November, Health Canada published the Sixth Annual Report on Medical Assistance in Dying, which tracked the expansion of euthanasia in 2024, with 16,499 Canadians receiving MAiD, amounting to 5.1 percent of the total deaths in Canada.
“The Government of Canada will continue its work to help ensure that the legislation on MAiD reflects the needs of people in Canada, protects those who may be vulnerable, and supports autonomy and freedom of choice,” the report asserts.
Health Canada noted that MAiD is not considered a cause of death by the World Health Organization and, therefore, “the number of MAiD provisions should not be compared to cause of death statistics in Canada in order to determine the prevalence (the proportion of all decedents) nor to rank MAiD as a cause of death.”
However, the government agency did admit that 16,499 people received MAiD in 2024, which amounted to 5.1 percent of “people in Canada who died.”
The report noted that that was “a small (0.4%) increase from 2023,” adding that “this percentage may change with final counts of deaths in Canada from Statistics Canada.”
Notably, the year-over-year increase was 6.9 percent, a significant slowdown from prior years, such as the 36.8 percent increase from 2019–2020. Health Canada suggested that MAiD provisions are beginning to “stabilize,” though long-term trends require more years of data.
According to the data, 95.6 percent of the deaths were Track 1, meaning those whose death was foreseeable, compared to only 4.4 percent being Track 2 requests, which end the lives of those who are not terminally ill but have lost the will to live due to their having chronic health problems.
“Although Track 2 provisions represented 4.4% of MAiD cases in 2024, they represented close to a quarter (24.2%) of all MAiD requests that were assessed as ineligible,” the report stated.
At the same time, internal documents from Ontario doctors in 2024 that revealed Canadians are choosing euthanasia because of poverty and loneliness, not as a result of an alleged terminal illness.
The report further revealed that 63.6 percent of the Canadians who were euthanized reported cancer as their underlying medical condition.
Currently, wait times to receive genuine health care in Canada have increased to an average of 27.7 weeks, leading some Canadians to despair and opt for assisted suicide instead of waiting for medical aid. At the same time, sick and elderly Canadians who have refused to end their lives have reported being called “selfish” by their providers.
Meanwhile, the Liberal government has worked to expand euthanasia 13-fold since it was legalized, making it the fastest growing euthanasia program in the world.
The most recent reports show that euthanasia is the sixth highest cause of death in Canada; however, it was not listed as such in Statistics Canada’s top 10 leading causes of death from 2019 to 2022.
Asked why it was left off the list, the agency said that it records the illnesses that led Canadians to choose to end their lives via euthanasia, not the actual cause of death, as the primary cause of death.
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