So what could go wrong with Canada’s euthanasia program, somewhat euphemistically called Medical Assistance in Dying or MAID? Well everything that could go wrong with this program, has gone wrong, from the increasing sphere of those “eligible” for the program to the latest wrinkle: a preponderance of organs coming from Canada to potentially transplant into American patients.
Deputy Health and Human Services Secretary Jim O’Neill has noticed a disturbing trend from Canada, a country that has become the assisted suicide capital of the world and which is increasingly also the place to get an organ transplant from all those people being encouraged to just call the doctor over to end their existence. And while we’re at it, how about donating your organs as well?
“We thought we’d seen all the possible horrors, you know, in America, and then Canada had this strange new horror that was really just shocking,” O’Neill told the Washington Examiner. The outlet noted a report from the Canadian Medical Association Journal that documented a “substantial increase in deceased donation” in Quebec after five years of the MAID program.
From 2018 to 2022, the number of organs obtained through MAID has jumped from 4.9% in 2018 to 14% in 2022.
So the potential for organ harvesting – the potential for crossing that line from offering MAID to promoting it as the next step in Canada’s healthcare system – is massive. For those requiring an organ transplant and unwilling to be placed on a waiting list, a new liver or kidneys is more valuable than a lottery win or a box of precious metals.
The MAID program in Canada has gradually expanded over the years and was on the verge of including the mentally ill, the addicted and even children to its list of those “eligible” for the procedure. The Liberal government at the time paused that expansion, given the pushback from many healthcare professionals, including psychiatrists, who suggested depression might just be a temporary affliction and something that can be overcome with therapy less invasive and lethal than doctor-assisted suicide.
But with all those potential organs potentially being sold to transplant patients, is this the time to be too timid in the expansion of euthanasia?
Canada has already become a cult of death under the Liberal regime of first Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and now Prime Minister Mark Carney. Whether it's preying on the old and infirmed, the depressed and the lonely or massacring hundreds of healthy ostriches at a farm in BC simply because those were the orders, Canada has become as macabre a country as an Edgar Allan Poe novel. There is death for the very old, the very sick, the very tired, the very depressed, the very hopeless and the very unborn. While euthanasia has proven to be a growth industry in a country where real industries are dying because of government regulations and control, Canada also offers the most toxic abortion policies of any country in the civilized world. There is quite simply no abortion law in Canada and there hasn’t been since the Supreme Court struck down the last such legislation in 1988. So Canada has offered unrestricted abortion on demand ever since, a reality that should make you nauseous but which seems to almost excite so many Liberal government cabinet ministers who really seem to believe that abortion is not just a fundamental right but some sort of crowning jewel in Canada’s democratic values.
Another so-called benefit of living in Canada is its much-vaunted socialized medicine or universal medicare, a program funded by both the federal and provincial governments and that is almost always advertised as “free.” It is anything but that and actually costs more in taxes than private healthcare in the US does. But I’m going to draw another intersection in Canada’s cult of death and suggest that while organ harvesting is a potential evil byproduct of MAID, Canadian healthcare is a primary progenitor of the growing “popularity” of MAID among people who are being offered euthanasia because they probably won’t live long enough to get the life-saving operation that they require.
Conservative commentator Glenn Beck recently ripped the veil off of Canada’s horrible healthcare system when he offered to pay for an operation for a Saskatchewan woman who was offered MAID because she couldn’t get the operation she needed in Canada. This is not some obtruded event in the Great White North. There are wait times for every operation in Canada, from hip replacements to cancer operations. You might be able to bide your time for the former surgery but time could well run out on you for the latter process.
When medicare acolyte Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) required emergency heart surgery in October 2019, he might have died had he relied on Canada’s socialized medicine; there is a waiting list to insert stents that alleviate artery blockage.
There are a multitude of stories of people being offered euthanasia instead of surgery. It’s just simpler that way. The elderly and those suffering from dementia are especially susceptible to offers of MAID, as are the casualties from the Covid vaccine who are not getting the assistance the federal government promised them but are getting offers of MAID. Kayla Pollack is one such case: an athlete before she took the vax, she is a quadriplegic today who has twice been offered doctor-assisted suicide.
So while MAID continues to prosper on the backs of Canadians, visions of organ harvesting could well propel its horror into the stratosphere.
