Canada has been in the medical murder business for quite a while, and business has been quite good for this generation’s Kevorkians.
First passed into law in 2016, Medical Assistance in Dying has become one of the most common causes of death in the Great White North.
About one out of 20 deaths in Canada is already assisted medically, and since it was passed the law on aiding suicides has become more and more permissive.
Originally envisioned to provide succor to people nearing the end of their lives due to an incurable and painful illness, now MAID is routinely approved for and even suggested to patients with chronic but not life-threatening conditions. This had led to multiple scandals, including the Veterans Affairs agency suggesting MAID for soldiers with PTSD, a Paralympian being told that she should consider suicide because she had trouble getting upstairs, and a chronically ill woman committing suicide because she couldn’t get specialized medical care in Canada’s overburdened health care system.
This Spring, the system was to be made available to people whose sole health condition was mental illness.
Ironically, this decision was delayed due to the inability of the Canadian Health Care system to provide mental health services. There simply aren’t enough psychiatrists to examine patients and approve their murder.
#BREAKING: Health Minister Mark Holland says their govt believes people with mental illness should qualify for MAID, but the system is not ready & is pushing the date out to 2027.
If mental illness is enough to qualify for MAID, how many Liberals would be immediately approved? pic.twitter.com/jMrzXiQbJ0
— govt.exe is corrupt (@govt_corrupt) February 1, 2024
Canada is postponing a plan to offer people suffering from mental illnesses the option of a medically assisted death, two cabinet ministers said on Monday.
The announcement by Mark Holland, the health minister, and Arif Virani, the justice minister, came after a special parliamentary committee looking into the plan concluded that there are not enough doctors, particularly psychiatrists, in the country to assess patients with mental illnesses who want to end their lives and to help them do so.
“The system needs to be ready, and we need to get it right,” Mr. Holland told reporters. “It’s clear from the conversations we’ve had that the system is not ready, and we need more time.”
Neither minister offered any timeline for the latest extension. Following an earlier delay, the expansion had been scheduled to come into effect on March 17.
How is that for irony? You may want to kill yourself because of severe depression; the government would love to help you do so but doesn’t have enough mental health professionals to help you commit suicide. But if they had enough mental health professionals, you might not want to commit suicide…
The circle is complete. You want help to die because you can’t get help to live, but there isn’t any help to be had for either.
Soon enough Canada’s health care system, while free, will consist of handing out a noose. It would be a gun, to ensure a quicker and less painful death, but Canada is squeamish about guns.
Some critics say the plan is a consequence of the inability of Canada’s public health care system to offer adequate psychiatric care, which is chronically underfunded and facing demand that outstrips its availability.Many psychiatrists say the plan would undermine efforts to prevent suicide, and they have expressed fear that patients with complex problems will abandon treatments that can take years to achieve results in favor of a medically assisted death.
Ya think? Promoting suicide might undermine suicide prevention? Who would have thought that without an expert opinion?
Most people I know can understand why somebody in great pain and facing imminent death might want to hasten the process, and almost all of them can understand the impulse to help these people along their journey to God. That is how laws like this get passed in the first place.
Unfortunately, the economic realities and the ideological impulses of the Left both conspire to ensure a rapid expansion of the practice. It is cheaper and easier to dispose of people when they are no longer considered productive or are now inconvenient to take care of.
This delay appears to be a welcome, if temporary, speed bump on the path to disposing of the mentally ill.